# Risk Perceptions on Social Media Use in Norway
## 5 Analysis and Results
### Risk Perceptions
#### 5.2.1 Risk Perceptions on Social Media Posting
\begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{l l l l l l l l l l l} \hline \hline \multirow{2}{*}{**Topic**} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{**Very Low**} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{**Low**} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{**High**} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{**Very High**} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{**Mean**} \\  & \multicolumn{2}{c}{**Count**} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{**N\%**} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{**Count**} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{**N\%**} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{**Count**} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{**N\%**} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{**Count**} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{**N\%**} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{**Mean**} \\ \hline Post pictures & Facebook & 55 & 19.10\% & 168 & 58.30\% & 55 & 19.10\% & 10 & 3.50\% & 2.1 \\  & Twitter & 22 & 16.40\% & 85 & 63.40\% & 22 & 16.40\% & 5 & 3.70\% & 2.1 \\  & Reddit & 39 & 36.40\% & 31 & 29.00\% & 24 & 22.40\% & 13 & 12.10\% & 2.1 \\  & Snapchat & 106 & 39.70\% & 127 & 47.60\% & 28 & 10.50\% & 6 & 2.20\% & 1.8 \\  & _Total_ & 222 & 411 & 129 & 34 & & & 2.0 \\ \hline Vacation & Facebook & 23 & 8.00\% & 128 & 44.40\% & 97 & 33.70\% & 40 & 13.90\% & 2.5 \\  & Twitter & 10 & 7.50\% & 44 & 32.80\% & 58 & 43.30\% & 22 & 16.40\% & 2.7 \\  & Reddit & 39 & 36.40\% & 31 & 29.00\% & 24 & 22.40\% & 13 & 12.10\% & 2.1 \\  & Snapchat & 65 & 24.30\% & 138 & 51.70\% & 44 & 16.50\% & 20 & 7.50\% & 2.1 \\  & _Total_ & 137 & 341 & & & 223 & 95 & & 2.3 \\ \hline Pets with names & Facebook & 97 & 33.70\% & 147 & 51.00\% & 33 & 11.50\% & 11 & 3.80\% & 1.9 \\  & Twitter & 36 & 26.90\% & 65 & 48.50\% & 26 & 19.40\% & 7 & 5.20\% & 2.0 \\  & Reddit & 35 & 32.70\% & 43 & 40.20\% & 20 & 18.70\% & 9 & 8.40\% & 2.0 \\  & Snapchat & 124 & 46.40\% & 120 & 44.90\% & 17 & 6.40\% & 6 & 2.20\% & 1.6 \\  & _Total_ & 292 & 375 & & & 96 & & 33 & & 1.8 \\ \hline Humorous content & Facebook & 89 & 30.90\% & 164 & 56.90\% & 27 & 9.40\% & 8 & 2.80\% & 1.8 \\  & Twitter & 40 & 29.90\% & 76 & 56.70\% & 15 & 11.20\% & 3 & 2.20\% & 1.9 \\  & Reddit & 59 & 55.10\% & 43 & 40.20\% & 2 & 1.90\% & 3 & 2.80\% & 1.5 \\  & Snapchat & 129 & 48.30\% & 119 & 44.60\% & 15 & 5.60\% & 4 & 1.50\% & 1.6 \\  & _Total_ & 317 & 402 & & & 59 & 18 & & 1.7 \\ \hline Share news story & Facebook & 92 & 31.90\% & 150 & 52.10\% & 40 & 13.90\% & 6 & 2.10\% & 1.9 \\  & Twitter & 30 & 22.40\% & 79 & 59.00\% & 22 & 16.40\% & 3 & 2.20\% & 2.0 \\  & Reddit & 57 & 53.30\% & 42 & 39.30\% & 6 & 5.60\% & 2 & 1.90\% & 1.6 \\  & Snapchat & 129 & 48.30\% & 119 & 44.60\% & 15 & 5.60\% & 4 & 1.50\% & 1.6 \\  & _Total_ & 308 & 390 & & & 83 & & 15 & & 1.8 \\ \hline Share political opinion & Facebook & 37 & 12.80\% & 127 & 44.10\% & 98 & 34.00\% & 26 & 9.00\% & 2.4 \\  & Twitter & 18 & 13.40\% & 52 & 38.80\% & 50 & 37.30\% & 14 & 10.40\% & 2.4 \\  & Reddit & 42 & 39.30\% & 42 & 39.30\% & 18 & 16.80\% & 5 & 4.70\% & 1.9 \\  & _Total_ & 97 & 221 & & & 166 & & 45 & & 2.3 \\ \hline Participate in debate & Facebook & 24 & 9.10\% & 97 & 36.60\% & 97 & 36.60\% & 47 & 17.70\% & 2.6 \\  & Twitter & 15 & 11.50\% & 42 & 32.10\% & 53 & 40.50\% & 21 & 16.00\% & 2.6 \\  & Reddit & 48 & 44.90\% & 39 & 36.40\% & 16 & 15.00\% & 4 & 3.70\% & 1.8 \\  & _Total_ & 87 & & & 178 & & 166 & & 72 & 2.4 \\ \hline Use Snapmap & Snapchat & 26 & 9.80\% & 77 & 28.90\% & 95 & 35.70\% & 68 & 25.60\% & 2.8 \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 15: Differences in risk perception when posting various information on social media. service, Snapmap. Snapmap shows on a map where users were the last time they used Snapchat if they have this service activated. Figure 7 shows that the majority of the participants perceive snapmap as high risk (36%) or very high risk (26%). Which was also the information that was considered being the riskiest to share by the participants, with an average of 2.8. To obtain a result regarding which platform and activity is considered riskiest by the participants, we have aggregated the data in Table 16 averaging the result. The results show that Facebook and Twitter are perceived to be the riskiest platforms for sharing, while Snapchat and Reddit are perceived to have a lower risk.