Proposing a User-Centered Model for Evaluating the Security of Social Media (Case Study - Facebook)

Abstract

The study dealt with proposing a User-Centered Model for Evaluating the Security of Social Media. The problem of the study is the existing privacy and security systems evaluation models are designed for specific system and do not take all systems in consideration. Also, the designers have created their systems depend on the general principles and guidelines so the applicability depends on the understanding of the designer. In addition, they were not involving the user during the designing security features which make problems in usability. The study aims to propose a user-centered model for evaluating security issues in social media. The study follows the descriptive approach and uses the SPSS to analyze the data. The study reach on the following results: There is a positive statistically significant relationship between security settings and their clarity, the user cannot distinguish active or turned-on security features on their account with 70%, Icons can be distinguished from each other easily with 64%. The study recommend that users have to learn how to marking which security features are active or turned on in account, users have to learn how to find out what security settings are available. Users have to make strong password.