The results of a survey from 2018 on the precautions taken from Italian users on social media showed that 40.4 percent of the respondents avoided entering personal information while 34.2 percent of respondents avoided posting content related to places they frequent.
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What are the precautions you use to protect your privacy on social media?
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Mixed CATI and CAWI methodology.
This question was phrased by the source as follows: "Quali sono le accortezze che usa per proteggere la Sua privacy sui social network?" .
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Euromedia Research. (May 16, 2018). What are the precautions you use to protect your privacy on social media? [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved June 06, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/862595/social-media-and-user-s-precautions-by-type-in-italy/
Euromedia Research. "What are the precautions you use to protect your privacy on social media?." Chart. May 16, 2018. Statista. Accessed June 06, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/862595/social-media-and-user-s-precautions-by-type-in-italy/
Euromedia Research. (2018). What are the precautions you use to protect your privacy on social media?. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: June 06, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/862595/social-media-and-user-s-precautions-by-type-in-italy/
Euromedia Research. "What Are The Precautions You Use to Protect Your Privacy on Social Media?." Statista, Statista Inc., 16 May 2018, https://www.statista.com/statistics/862595/social-media-and-user-s-precautions-by-type-in-italy/
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What are the precautions you use to protect your privacy on social media? [Graph], Euromedia Research, May 16, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/862595/social-media-and-user-s-precautions-by-type-in-italy/
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