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Privacy concerns for teenagers with social network sites is a subset of information
protection. Teenagers are young generation within the age range 13 to 19. 
Teenagers around the world are spending substantial time on social networking 
sites(SNSs). Yet, only a few studies have documented teens’ privacy concerns 
when using SNSs. With SNSs allowing the teenagers to have the opportunity to 
mingle with a huge network of known as well as unknown friends. It has become 
like an addiction for the young adults to create online profiles and certainly they 
are snared to mobile phones, laptops and PCs. Accessing the internet through the 
mobile phones has made it even easier for the teenagers to get logged-in into 
Facebook, Instagram or Twitter most of the time and post updates about their 
daily activities. Participating in the social networking sites and having an increased 
number of friends on the list is supposed to be a trend that cannot be ignored in 
any way. Nonetheless, the so called ‘friend list’ also includes some unknown 
friends and sharing of thoughts or personal stuffs to them might not be a good 
idea. Social networking sites offer privacy measures and encourage sharing of 
personal information. Hence, this article would focus on how and in what ways 
the revelation of private information by the users are safe and further does it 
affect the privacy of the teenagers in any way. In addition, the article would also 
analyze the privacy settings made by the popular social sites and its effectiveness 
with case studies. 
Key words: social networking sites, teenagers, privacy, security.