The Impact Of Privacy On Usage Trends For Social...

The rise of social media networks and web applications has amounted to a large amount of multimedia data being produced and communicated across the world. Although user awareness for risks associated with using these websites and applications is at an abysmally low levels as measured by an independent survey. The risks and challenges such as identity theft and disclosure of sensitive information should be properly addressed towards customers to avoid any potential loss of their private and personal information. The main purpose of this analysis is to understand and examine the effect of privacy issues in usage trends for Social Networking sites (SNS). Social issues in social media websites Using Social Networking sites is widely†¦show more content†¦They have next to no worry in regards to the weakness of their information content, which is disturbing marvel in approach of such incomprehensible measure of information accumulating by such sites Although they may seem to try t o understand the nuances of data security, but with too much data and too numerous friends, controlling an open page with authentic securitization parameters is alongside unusual parameters is next to impossible. The second problem is the security and privacy features provided by such websites are simply ill-equipped to handle medium-advanced Trojan attacks or sophisticated privacy hacks. While some critics have argued that privacy in social media websites cannot always be expected, as users are increasing their media presence by themselves in the public domain, while others argue that privacy in Social Networking sites must be made accountable. This is vital when users’ personal and private information are vulnerable to commercial exploitation by third parties without their prior consent or proper permission. Most common features provided by Social Networking site are public visibility of your data (which is default and available for everyone) or the private visibility option (to be available only for friends listed in your profile). However, Facebook is one of the