This suggests that users are comfortable with how much information they share and that they
may have already made an informed decision. In fact, research has been conducted that
concludes “even though individuals express concerns and awareness about Internet privacy, they
are still willing to engage in risky online activities” (Campbell et al. 2001). These online risky behaviors could include providing contact information such as residence and cell phone
information to the entire Carnegie Mellon University Facebook user population. And although
we only observed minimal changes surrounding our survey, our results show that most users
haven’t already changed their privacy settings and provide a majority of the possible data
categories. Users in general haven’t taken advantage of the privacy settings that Facebook has to offer and our survey had only a small effect in changing this.