Research On Self-disclosure And Privacy Management Of Young Users Of Social Media

The continuous improvement of Internet technology has promoted the evolution and evolution of media forms.In the past decade,with the popularity of mobile terminals,social media applications have developed rapidly and the scale of users has gradually expanded.Social networks with social media as the carrier have created a new form of "sharing" and "openness".Social media has become a huge online "show".Users are not only showing themselves in this environment,but also revealing themselves,and exposing their lives to the attention of others while watching others.Social media blurs the traditional boundary between public sphere and private sphere,and users' private information is also changing in the context of social media.The development of China's Internet began in 1994.In the rapid development process of nearly three decades,the growth of youth groups is accompanied by the development of the Internet.They witness the development and evolution of online media and are also the "main force" of online social media.Therefore,from the perspective of communication privacy management theory,combined with relevant theories such as self-disclosure and privacy paradox,this study focuses on three aspects: first,analyze the current situation and motivation of self-disclosure of young people in social media;Second,it discusses the impact of privacy information exposure brought by users' Self Disclosure on online space from both positive and negative perspectives;The third is to explore how to manage online disclosure from the perspective of privacy protection and reshape the privacy boundary in the social media environment.Through interviews with 20 respondents,it is concluded that the privacy exposure of young people on social media will lead to a certain degree of privacy anxiety,which is a privacy paradox in the use of social media.Under the influence of privacy exposure,users will selectively and purposefully expose personal information through privacy management,and delimit the privacy boundary of online public space by controlling the degree of disclosure and reselecting the "co-owner" of private information.Although young users who rely on social media or use social media more frequently are worried about the disclosure of privacy information in the process of self-disclosure and will generate corresponding online social pressure,most users cannot completely give up using social media for self-disclosure,and they are not completely passive about the privacy problems that may arise from self-disclosure,But through the privacy management to reshape the online privacy boundary and control the flow of privacy information,encrypt the content or isolate the audience.Through the research on the privacy management behavior of youth groups in the process of social media use,it is helpful to analyze the social media use behavior of youth groups in the digital era,and provide corresponding reference for the study of how social media users reshape the boundary of privacy,so as to build a safer and harmonious social network environment.