Digital Footprint Awareness of Social Media Users

Abstract

In today's world where information technologies have changed a lot, people leave traces that can be derived from their movements on the internet. Even personalities, political thoughts and potential consumption movements can be predicted thanks to these traces, called digital footprints. People who use social media may have to be more sensitive about digital footprint awareness because they share. The aim of this study is to determine the digital footprint awareness of people using social media. The study was conducted with 231 people and 15 people were excluded from the analysis because they did not use social media. As a result of the analysis, it was seen that the participants had a high level of awareness, there was no difference for age and place of residence variables, and there was a difference between the groups in terms of time spent on the Internet and computer ability variables.