The Essential Report
The Essential Report
The Essential Report
Button Button Button
Essential Report
Essential Report

Actions taken on social media

Sep 30, 2014
No Comments

Q. Have you taken any of the following actions in that last 12 months because of concerns about privacy and surveillance of social media?

 

Total

 

Men

Women

Aged 18-34

Aged 35-54

Aged 55+
Increased my security settings

55%

50%

58%

60%

55%

46%
Changed the types of things I say or put up on social media

49%

47%

51%

59%

44%

42%
Removed information about myself

41%

38%

43%

51%

38%

28%
Cut back my list of friends or people I follow

39%

36%

41%

48%

36%

27%
Taken other actions

20%

20%

20%

25%

18%

16%

(based on the 74% of respondents who use social media)

A majority had taken some form of action in the last 12 months because of concerns about privacy and surveillance of social media. The most common actions taken were increasing security settings (55%) and changing the types of things said or put up on social media (49%).

COVID-19 RESEARCH

Read Essential's ongoing research on the public response to Covid-19.

Essential Report

In this week's report:

Sign up for updates

Receive the Essential Report in your inbox.
  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Essential Tags

2PP Abbott ALP Anthony Albanese Approval of opposition leader Approval of Tony Abbott asylum seekers Australian economy Bill Shorten Carbon Tax climate change coronavirus covid-19 economy Education Election EMC environment ER Essential Media Essential Report Federal Budget Federal Government federal politics Gillard Greens Julia Gillard kevin rudd Labor Labor Party Liberal Liberal Party Liberals mining Nationals Opposition leader peter lewis Polling polls Prime Minister Scott Morrison tony abbott two party preferred voting Voting intention

Recent Comments