Jusletter IT

The popularity of social networking sites is constantly growing but their users continue to attach little importance to the protection of their own privacy and willingly share their personal data in the Internet. The issues concerning own privacy protection, ways of using the web and social networking sites, with particular focus on Facebook, became the subject of studies conducted on a group of Polish and American respondents. The paper shows the way of using the Internet and social media in Poland and the USA, and to formulate the crucial conclusions in this respect.