Survey: Four out of every five people say they're not sure their social media snaps are private

More than 80% of people say that they’re not confident that they can control the privacy of their images on social media like Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.

The findings of the Claire Byrne Live/Amárach Research poll showed just over 10% of people said that they thought they could control the privacy of their images, while 8% said that they weren’t sure.

1,000 people were asked in total, with the respondents being divided across age-groups and gender, as well as what region they were from in Ireland, with big differences seen in the response from different ages.

A quarter of people between the ages of 18-25 said that they thought they could control the privacy of their images, while just 6% of people over the age of 55 said the same.

The issue has come to the for recently after images of young Cork women were taken from their social media sites and posted on a porn website.

The poll was commissioned for the Claire Byrne Live Show in conjunction with TheJournal.ie.