Volume : 6, Issue : 4, April - 2017

THE SOCIAL NETWORKING AND ITS SECURITY. . .ARE WE REALLY SAFE . . . ?

Dr. Basayya M Hosurmath

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 31.2pt;">It has become very easy to communicate after the invention and development of latest communication tools. Now we can communicate with any one, anytime without any limitations.</span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 31.2pt;">&nbsp; </span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 31.2pt;">This is only possible from the invention of latest technology.</span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 31.2pt;">&nbsp; </span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 31.2pt;">Later it extended to the Social Network. Maximum people are attracted by these networks. Hence, it has become a popular tool for communication.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpLast" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;&#10;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-indent:31.2pt;line-height:200%;&#10;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">This is as limited attempt to understand how much we are safe with the social networks.&nbsp; When we come to the social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter are the booming networks currently.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="Default" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:31.2pt;line-height:200%"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">When the heterogeneous people entered to the social network it gives the opportunity to fill the gap between the people.&nbsp; It leads to use social networking as a tool of bluffing also for criminal activities like frauds, online gambling, data hacking, data theft etc. When we update the information in social networks the data are not been private.&nbsp; It can be seen and altered by anyone and anytime.&nbsp; Hence, it is very essential to understand the social networks security settings for our safety. The recent cyber crimes shows that we are not at all safe in the social networks.&nbsp; But if we use the privacy settings properly we can avoid such problems.<o:p></o:p></span></p>