A lot of teens/young adults self censor on Facebook, not because of privacy issues with relation to the rest of the world, but because of privacy issues concerning their parents/relatives. 'Oh shit my mom is on Facebook', was an SNL sketch a few months ago. It is definitely an issue that people think about.
The problem is that 'us nerds' try to explain it based on technical merits rather than giving practical examples in which privacy concerns are at issue. (I don't want everything that is said to my best friend Billy to go to my mom; I sometimes use language that my grandma would find inappropriate; I don't want my girlfriends to find out about each other, etc.)
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A lot of teens/young adults self censor on Facebook, not because of privacy issues with relation to the rest of the world, but because of privacy issues concerning their parents/relatives. 'Oh shit my mom is on Facebook', was an SNL sketch a few months ago. It is definitely an issue that people think about.
The problem is that 'us nerds' try to explain it based on technical merits rather than giving practical examples in which privacy concerns are at issue. (I don't want everything that is said to my best friend Billy to go to my mom; I sometimes use language that my grandma would find inappropriate; I don't want my girlfriends to find out about each other, etc.)