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A look at the history of Facebook regarding privacy concerns and user settings. Some very eye opening statistics regarding how many people have never modified their privacy settings as well as what Facebook has pushed through without permission and then had to readjust later after some pushback from consumers and governments.

This research paper seeks to relationship between social media and expressions of empathy. Focused primary on Facebook users, the study wanted to determine the amount of a person's positive outlook and the likelihood they would spend time on Facebook, interacting with other people.

A study into how teenagers and college students often view privacy settings on Facebook and their audiences on Twitter in terms of social identity without realizing how much can be datamined for advertisement purposes.

The study looks at puberta​​l timing in girls and their online peer networks and more specifically Facebook. Researchers surveyed Sweden girls in grade 7 and then again in grade 8. One of findings suggests that early maturing girls use Facebook to establish new relationships whereby the platform is used to practice self-disclosure.

Using data from a longitudinal study of LGBTQ youth and young adults, this study looks at levels of outness, victimization, and social support within Facebook. Findings included that these youth and young adults use the secutriy controls and other features of Facebook to manage their identities.

In discussing personas and Facebook it was noted, "Social networking sites create relationships of access. A friendship on Facebook is not as much about intimacy as about giving others a role in your identity "performances." This article examines the place virtual identities have in social media

This study looked at the impact of the 4-H Club's Facebook page and its impact on positive youth development. Findings suggest that their Facebook page can foster positive youth development whereby the social media platform can be used by youth who are part of the organization for learning experiences and to address community issues, for example.

A look into how school public pages, specifically Facebook, can violate student privacy and concerns/values of privacy for families.

The article looks at how social media sites such as Facebook have changed the way teenagers view privacy. The authors argue that teenagers do care about privacy and have developed mechanisms that allow them to maintain their privacy while still participating in online environments. They also suggest that our understanding of online privacy should shift from an individual context to incorporate a "networked context".

This article looks at the impact of social networking sites Facebook and Youtube specifically on cognitive abilities. Findings include between passive and active users of Facebook and Youtube there was no difference in cognitive ability.

Internet, social media and mobile phone usage has show increases of 4 to 13 percent in 2018 based upon their global digital suite of reports. This article is a barrage of data sets on internet usage broken down into a variety of specific areas. Comparisons globally show significant universal increases in usage. Part of their study shows older users joining social media. Facebook shows users aged 65 and above has increased by almost 20 percent in the last 12 months.

Feedback for open access in academic libraries. Literature review. For the past nine months, Graham Stone and Jill Emery have been promoting OAWAL: Open Access Workflows for Academic Librarians on a blog site, through Facebook[TM], through Twitter[TM], and at in-person events in both the USA and UK to raise awareness of open access management issues in academic libraries and in an attempt to crowdsource best practices internationally. The in-person meetings used a technique known as the H Form, which can be applied to other areas of academic librarianship. This overview outlines the current project, focusing on feedback received, highlights some of the changes that have been made in response to that feedback, and addresses future plans of the project.

Article noting that our online personalities may not be so different from our offline personalities after all. Moreover how we interact online can be predictive of how we view ourselves, as opposed to being a construct of social media.

This article examines the ways people use social media to project themselves to world and in many way, recreate themselves as they wish they could be. Also examined is the blurring between public and private lives and how the very definition of privacy has been changed.

Using the results of interviews conducted with twenty-two 14 - 18 year olds​, this study looks at how adolescents use social media platforms to regulate emotions. Findings include that adolescents do us different platforms to share different emotions. In the case of the subjects in this study Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram were used to share positive emotions and Messenger and Twitter to share negative emotions.