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INTRODUCTION
The use of social media today is relevantly high because most of us use it every
day. It allows us to communicate to the other students and it allows us to share our
thoughts. Social media has broad ways of usage such as promoting a product, posting
memes, to promote business, and there are those who use it to update, because of the
excessive use of social media the user might not realize that their information is leaking
and it can lead to identity theft where someone use your identity to fool others by
pretending to be someone.
In the body of literature on personal privacy, the concept was analyzed and related
interchangeably with terms such as privacy concerns, and privacy attitudes and beliefs
(Smith et al, 2011). Other scholars have analyzed the construct of privacy in other
different ways, for example, the perceived importance of personal privacy to people
(Hossain and Prybutol, 2008) and the perceived privacy risk and protection belief (Li et
al, 2010).
Children’s Privacy Law and the reaction of search engine providers on that initiative. It
discussed that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) plans to update and strengthen
Children Online Privacy Protection law, Act of 1998, as it was passed prior to the wide-
spread of smart phones owning and social media network sites introduction Twitter,
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Facebook, Google+, Instagram and other make access convenient for Internet users.
When users click the “log in” button, those social media networks track and store their
actions.
People tend to socialize, share information, posting news and pictures on the
Internet. The students (specially 15-18 years old) is the most likely gives more time in
using social media because they posting their life events, exchanging information, open
malicious website and not knowing that there is a leak on their privacy than can lead to a
high risk for identity theft and cyber-attacks. We need to find out how posting, sharing
information can affects the privacy of a student in the social media platforms and how to
Online privacy issues became more significance. Students (specially 15-18 years
old) are motivated to socialize and communicate, many of them express their identities to
present themselves and make a good impression. They provide their personal information
through several online activities for example: providing their names, address, cellphone
numbers, and other information when creating or log-in on the internet. Further, some
online activities which request to collect personal information from them. Soo the more
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What do they feel knowing that their personal information is being shared
This study is limited only to the students of Las Piñas City Technical-Vocational
High School students, ages 15-18 years old, who have a social media account(s) from
The study will examine the students who use social media, like Facebook,
Instagram, or Twitter and how can affect the privacy of the respondent.