AJIT-e: Academic Journal of Information Technology

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With the acceleration gained in the early years of 21st century, communication technologies creates fundamental changes in the communication habits of the individual. Social media channels, which have emerged with the increase in internet access opportunities and the spread of mobile communication technologies, continue to increase their popularity, especially among young people, and include various risks as well as opportunities. Social media channels, which turn into the field of making users visible and presenting their identities to the public, also undergo a deep transformation of the concept of privacy. Considering the disclosure dimensions of social media users on social media channels, it is seen that privacy is virtually eliminated. In this study, which is about digital parents' perception of privacy on social media, face-to-face and semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight parents who actively use social media platforms. When the findings were evaluated in general, three main conclusions were reached. First, digital parents, who define privacy as private and confidential, think that social media has a negative impact on privacy. Second, parents state that children are the target of exploiters because they are easily accessible on social media. Lastly, parents who want to protect the privacy of their children in social media state that they use restriction, awareness raising and various control methods.