The study analyzed a sample of 146 students from Harvard College in order to expose a relationship between leadership, as measured by having positions in student organizations, and Facebook privacy settings. Students leaders (n=94) were less likely than the control group (n=52) to leave an open profile (accessible to the entire Harvard Network), to show their list of friends, their pictures, or their discussion wall. I noticed that privacy settings were also influenced by the size of one’s network (number of Facebook friends), but this correlation was much stronger for leaders than for the control group...
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