Factors Affecting Information Privacy and Protection Behavior on Social Network Sites

The purpose of this study is to investigate Factors affecting information privacy and protection behavior on social media, and perceived severity attack on information privacy in social media. With the major objective of the study is to know the level of information privacy protection of the users on social media, protection behavior of the users on social media, andperceived severity attack on information privacy in social media. Our study is Quantitative research and Infinite Population target sampling procedure and selecting 250 respondents students learning universities in Mogadishu-Somalia; with the use online Web survey instruments called KOBOTOOLBOX, Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics analysis. After gathering and analyzing data, the study found that the information privacy and protection behavior has answered all questions related to information privacy. Based on the findings, the researcher suggests first, every organization should give more trainings for employees on how to keep their privacy when they use social networks and how to use ICT application usage. This could reduce losing data. Second, any information available as online such as personal data has become profitable to hackers and risk can accrue any time specially when they use social network.