Social-Networking and Self Disclosure

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Social Networking & Self-Disclosure 1
Introduction
?Facebook is the most popular, talked about, and used social networking site that is available to anyone who is older than 13 years of age. It allows you to create and maintain your personal profile, communicate with friends, family, co-workers, or complete strangers. In the United States there are more than 500 million active users today, 19.5 million are the age between 18-25, average user has 130 friends, and 700 million minutes are spent on Facebook at any given time per month. There are privacy setting available in which only your friends and users within shared network can access your profile, and those who do not change their privacy settings any Facebook member can access their account. Once you are a member of this popular networking site, you control of how much information you want to disclose about yourself, and with whom you feel comfortable sharing this information with.
?In the previous research done by Peluchette & Karl (2008) went one-step further and looked at three different social networks such, as Myspace, Linkedld, and Facebook. Facebook was the leading site for college students. Studied 433 undergraduate students in Midwestern part of United States. It was based on a survey and out of the 433 distributed, 346 were returned for a response rate of 89%. The survey was broken down into five sections: a) demographic items including gender, age, academic major, hours worked per week, and social network use; b) a problematic profile information measure; c) students perception of the image they feel they portray on their social network profile; d)students’ beliefs who is or should be viewing their social network profiles. The same participants were then asked how likely they would indicate 36 different items on their person profile. Items included things like photos, beliefs, demographics, and were rated based on a 5 point scale ranging from 1 being very unlikely and 5 very likely. Peluchette and Karl found that males more than females were more significantly to report their social network images that were wild, sexually appealing, or offensive.
?Research conducted by Nosko, Wood, Molema (2009) a study was done based on Facebook social networking and self-disclosure and what information is most likely to be disclosed and by whom. It was split up into three different categories; personal identification, sensitive personal information, potentially stigmatizing. A sample was done based on 400 randomly selected profiles from 8 Canadian Facebook profiles. They found that people who had gender, age, relationship statues shared more in all three categories then who did not indicate, and there was no significance between male and female. It has been theorized ( Taraszow, Aristodemou, Shitta, Laouris, & Arsoy 2010) that males are more likely to use information in which one can use to locate them.
?After reviewing the literature reviews it shows that there is a link between age and self-disclosure as seen by Nosko, Wood, Molema (2009). I conducted two hypothesis: 1) If one states a relationship status the more sensitive information they will post on the wall and 2) The longer a person has their Facebook account the more information they disclose.
Method

Participants
?Data was collected by posting two questions on personal Facebook page and also created an event asking the same two questions. First question asked, on average how much time a week they spend on Facebook, and the second question was how long they had it for. A week was given to answer the two question. Data was then collected based on 84 participants.
?Of the 84 Facebook personal profiles, 74 indicated gender ( 29 females, 34 males, males) and 11 not stated. Additionally 42 profiles disclosed age. Among the females, ages ranged from 17 to 35 years ( M=17 years). Males age ranged from 18 to 46 years ( M=22 years). The mean age of males and females who indicated their age and gender did not differ.
Procedure
?A variable checklist was developed consisting 66 categories to estimate the
content of the Facebook profiles. Each profile was scored individually and participants original wall posts in the month of October and were categorized in one of the three categories and given a score. Full names, phone numbers, addresses are bits of information that can potentially be harmful to the disclosure. Religious views, tagged photos, videos can potentially be used to harm and stigmatize and individual. Three disclosure categories were used ( personal identification information, sensitive personal information, potentially stigmatizing information) . Scores were given from 0 to 22. The more the individual disclosed the higher score they received.

Results
?A comparison was analyzed weather any differences exist between length of Facebook membership and sensitive personal information. Consistent with the hypotheses, the pearson correlation revealed a significant positive correlation between membership length and sensitive personal information, r(82)=.25, p< .05. Specifically, the longer an individual had their Facebook account the more sensitive personal information one will reveal.
?A second comparison analyzed an individual stating in relationship and personal identity information. Consistent with the hypotheses, the person correlation revealed a significant positive correlation between membership length and sensitive persona information, r(82)=.22, p < .05. Specifically, if one individual stated they were in a relationship versus someone who has not, the less personal identity information they disclosed.
?A third comparison analyzed someone stating in relationship and sensitive personal information. Consistent with the hypotheses, the person correlation revealed a significant positive correlation between membership length and sensitive persona information, r(82)=.33, p < .05. Specifically, if one individual stated in a relationship the less sensitive personal information they posted on their wall.
?The other four comparisons failed to reveal a positive correlation and were not significant. Contrary to the hypothesis, the person failed to reveal a correlation between age and sensitive personal information, r(82 )=-.05,p >.05.
?Contrary to the hypothesis, the participant correlation failed to reveal a correlation between females more likely to disclose more sensitive personal information than males, r(82)=-.05,p>.05.
?Contrary to the hypothesis, the participant failed to reveal a correlation between males more likely disclosing potentially stigmatizing information than females, r(82)=-.05,p>.05.
?Contrary to the hypotheses, the participant failed to reveal a correlation between the more information completed on Facebook page the more one will reveal in all three categories, r(82)=-.05,p >.05

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