Privacy in Social Networks

Thank you for taking the time to complete this survey by Markus Tschersich (PhD. Student at the Chair of Mobile Business and Multilateral Security, Goethe University Frankfurt) - looking after users' configuration of privacy settings in social networks.

The information gathered in this survey will help us determining how users of social networks (like facebook) configurate their privacy settings for their personal information. Based on this we can get an understanding of users' behaviour to learn how users' demands on the privacy configuration in social networks can be met.

The survey is built out of three parts: configuration of privacy setting, a questionnaire and a short activity with three tasks

In the first part, we want you to configure your privacy settings like you would do in a private used social network with your personal information. Please imagine that the requested personal information are available in the social network. Thus, in the case that you would not submit a requested information to a social network, please set 'Just Me' for this kind of personal information. The questionnaire just require you to answer some questions honestly. For the activity we will give you three small tasks you need to solve.

This survey should only take 15 to 20 minutes of your time. Your answers will be collected anonymously.

We will raffle an iPad Mini, a kindle paperwhite and a kindle among all participants whose finalize this survey. If you are interested in the results or the prices, feel free to insert your e-mail address at the end of the survey.

In the case of any questions do not hesitate to send me your questions to user.study@m-chair.net.

Thanks again for participating in this survey.