Teenagers are tired of sharing every aspect of their lives online and are taking steps to ensure their privacy on social media, report reveals

  • Young people are un-tagging pictures, writing false posts to ensure privacy
  • Code known as ‘vague-booking’ is used to prompts messages from friends
  • Some youngsters are adopting parallel identities for things like gaming
  • Report says teenagers are increasingly concerned with what strangers see
  • Contradicts Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s claim in 2010 that people have become more comfortable with posting private information online

Millions of Facebook users have no idea they’re using the internet

It was in Indonesia three years ago that Helani Galpaya first noticed the anomaly. Indonesians surveyed by Galpaya told her that they didn’t use the internet. But in focus groups, they would talk enthusiastically about how much time they spent on Facebook. Galpaya, a researcher (and now CEO) with LIRNEasia, a think tank, called Rohan Samarajiva, her boss at the time, to tell him what she had discovered. “It seemed that in their minds, the Internet did not exist; only Facebook,” he concluded.

Facebook’s Project to Find Out What People Really Want in Their News Feed

It’s part of a continuing effort by Facebook to make the News Feed central to our existence. “The dream is to get to this world where people feel that Facebook is an instrumental, useful, important part of their lives,” says the company’s chief product officer, Chris Cox. “That’s the golden thing.”

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