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Review Of “I regretted the minute I pressed share”: A Qualitative Study of Regrets on Facebook. Y. Wang, G. Norcie, S. Komanduri, A. Acquisti, P. G. Leon, and L. F. Cranor In Proceedings of the Seventh Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security, ACM, 2011, pp. 10:1-10:16.
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Review Of“I regretted the minute I pressed share”: A Qualitative Study of Regrets on Facebook Y. Wang, G. Norcie, S. Komanduri, A. Acquisti, P. G. Leon, and L. F. Cranor In Proceedings of the Seventh Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security, ACM, 2011, pp. 10:1-10:16. Presented By : Amandeep Kaur
Summary This paper investigates: Regrets associated with users’ posts onFacebook based on a series of interviews, user diaries, and online surveys involving 569 American Facebook users.
Appreciation • This paper draws attention towards the proactive measures that could be taken to avoid the facebook regrets. • I agree with the author that using customized privacy settings can avoid the regrets associated with facebook.
Appreciation Contd.. • I appreciate author’s suggestion to facilitate and strengthen the user’s existing coping mechanisms by building a content-based reminder. • It could be triggered when a user posts a message that contains words or phrases indicative of sensitive and controversial topics.
Criticism • This paper takes into consideration the behavior of American Facebook users, recruited from Amazon’s mechanical Turk. • These users might not represent the whole population of Facebook users. People in different parts of the world have different behaviors, attitudes and ideas of privacy.
Question • What are the potential privacy risks associated with Facebook or any other SNS? • What kind of tools can be built to avoid the users posting regrettable content?
Survey Question Have you ever posted something on a social network and then regretted doing it?