A study of Security Issues Faced and Security Measures Practiced by Citizens of Pune City while working on Social Networking Websites
Balkrushna Potdar, Vilas Nandavadekar · 2012
Social Networking is widely accepted and used in and outside every organization. There are number of Social Networking Websites exist on server e.g. Orkut, Twitter, Facebook, LinkdIn, hi5, MySpace, Friendster, Flickr etc. and users log on to these websites on daily basis and avail various free services such as; Scrapping, Messaging, Text/Audio/Video Chatting, Games etc. However, it is observed that there are many users face different security problems while accessing these Social Networking Websites. These security problems are Identity Theft, Stealing of Personal, professional data and so on. Researchers have discussed various kinds of Security Issues Faced and Security Measures Practiced by Citizens of Pune City while working on Social Networking Websites. This paper is focused on the major issues of security and it also deals with possible solutions on these issues.