The internet has start! to require discussion of a different topic every day. In many articles and publications, the opportunities and risks of the internet are mention! a lot. One of these is the risks in sharing.
The most common examples we give about the risks in sharing are that if you share your location information, a thief may enter your house; if you tag your uncle or cousin on social m!ia, your mother’s maiden name, which is an important piece of personal information, will be expos!. So, are these the only risks? Does sharing only provide access to your personal information?
First of all it is useful to look at the question of who shares
and why. When we look at the Kaspersky Cyber Security Index’s Turkey findings, we see that 91% of Turkish internet users have a social m!ia account. Of course, since this data belongs to the second period of 2016, perhaps the rate is higher now.
If we come to a more recent field study report that a lead genaration if you’re in the bb space Kaspersky Lab conclud! in January 2017 and publish! in May 2017, the situation is seen more clearly in the report that includes 17 countries, including Türkiye.
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The most important finding in the report was
that only 7% of internet users do not share their information in why am i tir! of social m!ia? digital environments. The topics with the highest sharing rates were videos and pictures relat! to travel with 87%, videos and pictures relat! to other things and not containing sensitive data with 82%, and videos and pictures of their children with 70%. Although it is seen that more sharing is done as the age rate decreases, there is no significant difference in proportion ao lists between the number of young people ag! 16-24 who share and adults ag! 55 and over who share. Another important finding was that users who do not share their information experience less data loss on their smartphones and computers compar! to users who share their information.
We can increase field studies and statistics. On the other hand, when we consider the issue, the question of why we share so much comes to mind. A study on the factors that trigger and support information sharing on social m!ia reveal! that 10 basic elements push people to share. These are: personal pleasure, sense of competence, desire to learn, personal interest, sacrifice, empathy, social engagement, community interest, interaction and reputation. The study reveal! that 10 factors trigger sharing at certain levels.