respondents who did not try to change the privacy settings of their personal profile on social network
Method of interview
Face-to-face interview
Supplementary notes
Original survey question was phrased as follows:
"Why have you not tried to change these privacy settings?"
The source adds the following information: "Max. 3 answers"
*Number of respondents from 28 European countries.
Citation formats
Reasons for not changing privacy settings on social media sites in Denmark 2019
As of March 2019, the leading reason to not try changing the default settings on social media sites among Danes, was not trusting the sites to set appropriate privacy settings, according to 32 percent of the participants in the survey.
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