Mobile Media & Social IT
Request this paperThis paper examines the use and comprehension of why and when people use location-based services on Facebook. Through a quantitative online survey it gives a picture on how it has affected communication today. It also sets out to predict if Facebook Deals could be a communication changer for privacy & friendships.
Statistics
“Why do you use Facebook’s check-in service?”
Don’t know | 4% |
To show my friends where I am | 24% |
To show that I am with my friends | 5% |
To show that I am very outgoing | 1% |
I don’t use Facebook check- ins | 60% |
Other reply | 7% |
“While users can be more or less informed about protecting their privacy, and such technology can be less or more configurable to afford this, a great deal of data is being generated – that, in turn, has its unforeseen uses, and enormous commercial as well as public value.” – Goggin (2011), page 49