An investigation into privacy and security in online social networking sites among IIUM students

An investigation into privacy and security in online social networking sites among IIUM students

the issues of privacy and security in online social networking sites have been the dual themes of utmost concern amongst many communities and IIUM community in particular. This article highlights the importance of online social networking sites such as: Face book, Google+, and Twitter and the issues...

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Main Authors: Abdullahi, Husein Osman, Said, Abdirizaq, Ibrahim, Jamaludin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: WCSIT 2012
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T Technology (General)
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spelling iium-386442014-10-09T02:57:45Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/38644/ An investigation into privacy and security in online social networking sites among IIUM students Abdullahi, Husein Osman Said, Abdirizaq Ibrahim, Jamaludin T Technology (General) the issues of privacy and security in online social networking sites have been the dual themes of utmost concern amongst many communities and IIUM community in particular. This article highlights the importance of online social networking sites such as: Face book, Google+, and Twitter and the issues of privacy and security in online interactions. The authors also argue that the online social networks have played a significant role on daily digital interaction for more than half billion users around the world today are bedeviling with the issues of privacy and security. This study employs a quantitative data analysis, a survey and a random sampling of (n=160) IIUM students from different Kulliyah were conducted. The result shows that the percentage responses of IIUM who seems to be actively involved in online social network pages are not aware of their privacy and security in online environment. WCSIT 2012 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/38644/1/An_Investigation_into_privacy_and_Security_in_Online_Social_Networking_Sites_among_IIUM_Students.pdf Abdullahi, Husein Osman and Said, Abdirizaq and Ibrahim, Jamaludin (2012) An investigation into privacy and security in online social networking sites among IIUM students. World of Computer Science and Information Technology Journal (WCSIT), 2 (2). pp. 57-61. ISSN 2221-0741 http://v1.wcsit.org/index.php/10-articles/128-an-investigation-into-privacy-and-security-in-online-social-networking-sites-among-iium-students
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topic T Technology (General)
spellingShingle T Technology (General)
Abdullahi, Husein Osman
Said, Abdirizaq
Ibrahim, Jamaludin
An investigation into privacy and security in online social networking sites among IIUM students
description the issues of privacy and security in online social networking sites have been the dual themes of utmost concern amongst many communities and IIUM community in particular. This article highlights the importance of online social networking sites such as: Face book, Google+, and Twitter and the issues of privacy and security in online interactions. The authors also argue that the online social networks have played a significant role on daily digital interaction for more than half billion users around the world today are bedeviling with the issues of privacy and security. This study employs a quantitative data analysis, a survey and a random sampling of (n=160) IIUM students from different Kulliyah were conducted. The result shows that the percentage responses of IIUM who seems to be actively involved in online social network pages are not aware of their privacy and security in online environment.
format Article
author Abdullahi, Husein Osman
Said, Abdirizaq
Ibrahim, Jamaludin
author_facet Abdullahi, Husein Osman
Said, Abdirizaq
Ibrahim, Jamaludin
author_sort Abdullahi, Husein Osman
title An investigation into privacy and security in online social networking sites among IIUM students
title_short An investigation into privacy and security in online social networking sites among IIUM students
title_full An investigation into privacy and security in online social networking sites among IIUM students
title_fullStr An investigation into privacy and security in online social networking sites among IIUM students
title_full_unstemmed An investigation into privacy and security in online social networking sites among IIUM students
title_sort investigation into privacy and security in online social networking sites among iium students
publisher WCSIT
publishDate 2012
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/38644/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/38644/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/38644/1/An_Investigation_into_privacy_and_Security_in_Online_Social_Networking_Sites_among_IIUM_Students.pdf
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