The relationship between thinking pattern and spreading privacy through the new social media

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Communication and Media Department, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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Self-disclosure through publishing and sharing information, interests and personal relationships with others has emerged greatly using social media in the last decade. Trying to know the motives behind this behavior and its interpretation by determining the relationship between it and the cognitive features of social media application users will contribute to explaining the growth of self-disclosure and its relation to the demographic and mental variables of the research subjects. This study aims to measure the size of the phenomenon in social media applications and its relation to the demographic variables and the variable of thinking patterns. And to achieve this goal, the researcher uses the descriptive approach, by using two tools: the questionnaire tool to find out the subjects’ attitudes towards self-disclosure, and the KAMI scale to determine the subjects’ thinking pattern, who numbered about (433) individuals from King Abdul-Aziz University in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
The results of the study showed that there were statistically significant differences in the motives of the subjects’ sharing their attitudes and beliefs, in accordance with their thinking style and their type of preferred social media application to disclose the privacy of their information, interests, and relationships.

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