As the utility of social media platforms for interacting with large populations, as well as understanding how they interact, becomes an increasingly interesting area, privacy concerns could present a barrier to engagement. This study employs a survey method to explore social media user frustrations with terms of service agreements and concerns over privacy and personal information shared on them. Findings support that concerns over control, collection, and access to personal information associate with decreased intensity of social media use and correlate to frustration with terms of service agreements regarding personal information use. Given the relationship between use and privacy concerns, leaving privacy concerns unaddressed might also lead to a reduction of use if these concerns continue to grow among users.

随着社交媒体平台与大批人互动以及了解他们如何互动的实用性日益成为人们关注的领域，隐私问题可能会成为参与的障碍。这项研究采用一种调查方法来探索社交媒体用户对服务协议条款的不满，以及对隐私和个人信息共享的关注。调查结果支持有关控制，收集和访问个人信息的担忧，这与社交媒体使用强度的降低有关，并且与对有关个人信息使用的服务协议条款的挫败感相关。考虑到使用和隐私问题之间的关系，如果这些问题在用户中继续增长，则未解决隐私问题也可能导致使用减少。