TY  - JOUR
AB  - In order to build and maintain social capital in their Online Social Networks, users need to disclose personal information, a behavior that at the same time leads to a lower level of privacy. In this conceptual paper, we offer a new theoretical perspective on the question of why people might regulate their privacy boundaries inadequately when communicating in Online Social Networks. We argue that people have developed a subjective theory about online privacy putting them into a processing mode of default trust. In this trusting mode people would (a) discount the risk of a self-disclosure directly; and (b) infer the risk from invalid cues which would then reinforce their trusting mode. As a consequence people might be more willing to self-disclose information than their actual privacy preferences would otherwise indicate. We exemplify the biasing potential of a trusting mode for memory and metacognitive accuracy and discuss the role of a default trust mode for the development of social capital.
AU  - Moll, Ricarda
AU  - Pieschl, Stephanie
AU  - Bromme, Rainer
AU  - Bromme-Seeger, ...
DA  - 2014-12-15
DO  - doi:10.3390/soc4040770
KW  - Online Social Networks
KW  - self-disclosure
KW  - privacy
KW  - subjective theory
KW  - memory
KW  - metacognitive accuracy
LA  - eng
N1  - Societies 4 (2014) 4, 770-784
N1  - Finanziert durch den Open-Access-Publikationsfonds 2014/2015 der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) und der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU Münster).
PY  - 2014-12-15
SN  - 2075-4698
TI  - Trust into Collective Privacy? (Meta-)Cognitive Factors of Self-Disclosure in Online Social Networks
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-90389541097
Y2  - 2024-11-22T00:39:36
ER  -