We Want Privacy, but Can’t Stop Sharing – NYTimes.com
A three-year German study ending in 2012 showed that the more people disclosed about themselves on social media, the more privacy they said they desired. The lead author of the study, Sabine Trepte, a professor of media psychology at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart, said the paradox indicated participants’ dissatisfaction with what they got in return for giving away so much about themselves.“It’s a bad deal because what they get is mainly informational support like maybe […]