Online social networks (OSNs) have become an integral part of social interaction and communication between\npeople. Reasons include the ubiquity of OSNs that is offered through mobile devices and the possibility to bridge\nspatial and temporal communication boundaries. However, several researchers have raised privacy concerns due to\nthe large amount of user data shared on OSNs. Yet, despite the large body of research addressing OSN privacy issues,\nlittle differentiation of data types on social network sites is made and a generally accepted classification and\nterminology for such data is missing. The lack of a terminology impedes comparability of related work and discussions\namong researchers, especially in the case of privacy implications of different data types. To overcome these\nshortcomings, this paper develops a well-founded terminology based on a thorough literature analysis and a\nconceptualization of typical OSN user activities. The terminology is organized hierarchically resulting in a taxonomy of\ndata types. The paper furthermore discusses and develops a metric to assess the privacy relevance of different data\ntypes. Finally, the taxonomy is applied to the five major OSNs to evaluate its generalizability
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