CHRISTIAN FUCHS - ICT&S - Universität Salzburg

Christian Fuchs: Social Networking Sites and the Surveillance Societybetween if there is no time for callingon the phone)#377 4 Networking of students, exchangebetween like-minded people#641 2, 8, 9, 13 You can quickly get into contact withother people, you find informationon for example university courses(studiVZ), nice way of spending time,you can present yourself for jobapplications on Xingkleine Nachrichten schreiben, wennkeine Zeit zum Telefonieren ist).Vernetzung der StudentInnenuntereinander, Austausch vonGleichgesinntenman kann schnell mit anderenLeuten in Kontakt treten, man findeteventuell Informationenbeispielsweise zu einem Uni-Kurs(studiVZ), netter Zeitvertreib, mankann sich selbst darstellen - bei Xingfür Bewerbungen ...Table 19. Examples for advantages that were listed by the respondentsFigure 42 presents the major disadvantages of social networking sites that ourrespondents mentioned.Figure 39. Major perceived risks of social networking sites1: Data abuse or data forwarding or lack of data protection that lead to surveillance bystate, companies, or individuals2: Private affairs become public and result in a lack of privacy and privacy control3: Personal profile data (images, etc) are accessed by employer or potential employersand result in job-related disadvantages (such as losing a job or not getting hired)4: Receiving advertising or spam5: Lack or loss of personal contacts, superficial communication and contacts,impoverishment of social relations6: Stalking, harassment, becoming a crime victim7: Commercial selling of personal data93