A Study on Privacy and Security Aspects of Facebook

2. Empirical Study

In order to gather empirical data we established a questionnaire. We selected freeonlinesurveys.com to post our survey. We floated survey link to thousands of users. More than 370 users participated in survey to give their opinion. 341 participants were from Pakistan and 33 were from USA. Despite of our effort we were not able to get view of people from other countries due to short period of time. As a result our findings are mainly limited to Pakistani users. Age classification is important to understand responses of users. In our survey 55% of users reported their age between 16-21 years when they started using facebook. The starting age (21-30 years) covered 22% and 20% respondents were 30 + in age, as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1.

Age of Facebook user at start time