Gender differences in privacy awareness on social networking sites

In this research, we have created two Facebook profile accounts of an average 18-year-old female and male. We have added 30 female and 30 male profiles on Facebook as friends from created accounts and waited to see if the profiles will get friend request accepted. We have done a comparative analysis based on gender, age and number of friends of profiles that have been added by the created profiles. We have found that male users of Facebook have more frequently added new, unfamiliar friends on Facebook than female users.