Users surveyed were also asked questions that examined their awareness of privacy settings
on the Facebook. Specifically, we wanted to measure whether users know that they can change
their privacy settings, what settings users have changed and why, whether users have read the
privacy policy, and whether or not they know some of the ways that Facebook can use their data
as stated in their privacy policy. Users rarely change their privacy settings from the default
(Cohler 2005). Our results corroborate this fact. We found that 80% of users surveyed have not
read the privacy policy. 40% of users reported that they are aware of Facebook’s policy on
sharing data with third parties. These results correlate to what we found about the number of
users who altered their privacy settings as far as the number of users who have used privacy
settings.