Facebook changes led users to reveal more: study
- Published: 6 Mar 2013 at 05.49
- Online news: World
Facebook users began sharing more private data after the social network giant revamped its policies and interface, according to a study released Tuesday.
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Facebook, holds a press conference on May 26, 2010 in Palo Alto, California to outline Facebook's new privacy control methods. Facebook users began sharing more private data after the social network giant revamped its policies and interface, according to a study released Tuesday.
The seven-year study by Carnegie Mellon University researchers said users had been moving toward greater privacy settings from 2005 to 2009, but that the trend reversed with the Facebook changes in 2009 and 2010.
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