Who gets to know what when: configuring privacy permissions in an awareness application
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A study of preferences for sharing and privacy
CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Examining privacy and disclosure in a social networking community
Proceedings of the 3rd symposium on Usable privacy and security
Understanding privacy settings in facebook with an audience view
UPSEC'08 Proceedings of the 1st Conference on Usability, Psychology, and Security
Tagged photos: concerns, perceptions, and protections
CHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
All My People Right Here, Right Now: management of group co-presence on a social networking site
Proceedings of the ACM 2009 international conference on Supporting group work
Feasibility of structural network clustering for group-based privacy control in social networks
Proceedings of the Sixth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security
Oops, I did it again: mitigating repeated access control errors on facebook
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
An investigation into facebook friend grouping
INTERACT'11 Proceedings of the 13th IFIP TC 13 international conference on Human-computer interaction - Volume Part III
"I regretted the minute I pressed share": a qualitative study of regrets on Facebook
Proceedings of the Seventh Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security
Boundary regulation in social media
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Fighting for my space: coping mechanisms for sns boundary regulation
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Talking in circles: selective sharing in google+
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Narrowcasting in social media: effects and perceptions
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining
What you want is not what you get: predicting sharing policies for text-based content on facebook
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM workshop on Artificial intelligence and security
Identity management through "profiles": prototyping an online information segregation service
HCI'13 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Human-Computer Interaction: users and contexts of use - Volume Part III
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Users are sharing and consuming enormous amounts of information through online social network interaction every day. Yet, many users struggle to control what they share to their overlapping social spheres. Google+ introduces circles, a mechanism that enables users to group friends and use these groups to control their social network feeds and posts. We present the results of a qualitative interview study on the sharing perceptions and behavior of 27 Google+ users. These results indicate that many users have a clear understanding of circles, using them to target information to those most interested in it. Yet, despite these positive perceptions, there is only moderate use of circles to control information flow. We explore reasons and risks associated with these behaviors and provide insight on the impact and open questions of this privacy mechanism.