An Analysis of the Privacy and Security Issues Affecting the Usage of Social Media
Musa Ahmed Zayyad · International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science · 2023
Social media have become extremely popular in recent years, and their widespread adoption has led to the presence of huge volumes of users’ personal information on the Internet. The ever-increasing number of social media users on one hand and the massive amount of information being shared daily on the other hand have encouraged attackers to develop and use different techniques to collect and analyze such information for a number of malicious purposes, including spamming, attacking through viruses, phishing, spear-phishing attacks and identity theft among others. Clearly, this trend represents a significant challenge affecting both users and administrators, and likewise create a privacy and security issues for social media users. In this paper, common security and privacy issues were examined along with recommendations to social media users to protect themselves from these issues whenever they use social media.