Privacy Concerns in Social Networking

Running head: PRIVACY CONCERNS IN SOCIAL NETWORKING
Privacy concerns in social networking
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Abstract
Privacy concerns have a huge impact for the users of different categories of social networking
platforms like Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram, Snapchat. Each of these social networking
platforms are increasingly used both in our society as well as in global business
establishments and these privacy concerns usually leads to huge business loss and financial
loss in the commercial statements. Data security ids one of the prime concerns of the users as
a result of the privacy concerns in social networking. The enactment of each of the privacy
concerns shall be identified from different perspective in this proposal.
The findings of this proposal shall be entirely based on the data collection procedure and the
sampling procedure which will be conducted in an organized manner in this research. The
ethical considerations and the impact of the study can be understood from the findings of this
paper which will be entirely based on the data collection procedure.

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction............................................................................................................................3
1.1 Research Background.......................................................................................................3
1.2 Purpose of the study.........................................................................................................3
1.3 Outline of the thesis.........................................................................................................3
1.4 Research questions...........................................................................................................4
1.5 Variables of this project...................................................................................................4
1.6 Problem description.........................................................................................................4
1.7 Structure of the paper.......................................................................................................4
2. Literature Review...................................................................................................................5
3. Methodology..........................................................................................................................6
3.1 Research design................................................................................................................6
3.2 Investigation type.............................................................................................................7
3.2 Variables of the project....................................................................................................7
3.3 Data collection method....................................................................................................7
3.5 Data analysis method.......................................................................................................9
4. Significance of ethical clearance..........................................................................................10
5.1 Findings of the proposal.....................................................................................................11
5.2 Impact on the field.............................................................................................................11
6. Conclusion............................................................................................................................11
7. Reference..............................................................................................................................13

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1. Introduction
The notable objective this proposal is to focus on the privacy issues of social
networking which is increasing at an alarming rate both in our society as well as in
commercial organizations.
1.1 Research Background
Numerous categories of social media platforms which are commonly deployed in our
society such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Snap chat. Each of these social media
channels have limitations in terms of the API issues which might be responsible for numerous
data security breaches (Peng, Wang & Xie 2016).The different categories of data access
methods which are used in these social media platforms in terms of searching the location of
the data which is accessible by each of these social media platforms if the location settings
are on the users.
1.2 Purpose of the study
This proposal shall be identifying each of the privacy concerns which are raised by
each of these social media platforms.
1.3 Outline of the thesis
The privacy concerns coming from each of the different categories of social media
platforms is having an adverse impact on our society as well as in commercial establishment.
Account hacking and impersonation are the two prime negative impact caused as a result of
the privacy concerns. Thus, this proposal shall be very much convenient to recognize the
different privacy issues and the reasons behind the privacy issues associated with the
different categories of social networking platforms. This proposal shall identify the variables
of the project and the findings of this proposal shall be depended on the basis of the chosen