Friend Inspector: A Serious Game to Enhance Privacy Awareness in Social Networks

Currently, many users of Social Network Sites are insuffi-ciently aware of who can see their shared personal items. Nonetheless, most approaches focus on enhancing privacy in Social Networks through improved privacy settings, neglect-ing the fact that privacy awareness is a prerequisite for pri-vacy control. Social Network users first need to know about privacy issues before being able to make adjustments. In this paper, we introduce Friend Inspector, a serious game that al-lows its users to playfully increase their privacy awareness on Facebook. Since its launch, Friend Inspector has attracted a significant number of visitors, emphasising the need for better tools to understand privacy settings on Social Networks