Data Protection Guidelines for Protecting Privacy of Users on Social Media

Social Media interaction is growing at a rapid pace. Every smart phone user has at least 1 social media account. Social media websites offer th*eir users what seem like free services. These free services are then paid for in kind when the social media websites use their personal information to aide their business objectives. In this paper, I have included survey results of a user awareness survey that I conducted among people from various demographics. The total number of respondents to that survey was 404. I have used Facebook as the subject of my survey and will be using the results to generalize to other social media websites. The survey showed that people are ignorant of the ways in which their personal data might be misused.