Emerging trends with social network - design, models and handling
Dimple Tiwari, Bharti Nagpal · 2023
Social networking sites experiencing tremendous growth along with the advancement of web 2.0 in the past few decades. Online social sites offer alluring services for making relationships and for smooth communication among people. It became a fundamental need of human life and used for almost all area of lifelike entertainment, medical, shopping, education, legitimated activities, and business. Unfortunately, these become the target for intruders who attempt unlawful activities and harm social users' prestige and financial health. This study focuses on various concerns associated with social networking. This chapter presents the different types of social networks (SNs) that emerged due to the advancement of the Internet. Several challenges occur in SNs with the increasing demand for their uses. So, here we discussed some research and open challenges associated with SNs. However, SNs have gained popularity over the years, but users do not trust these platforms due to the increasing cyber-crimes. We provided a list of different security threats and promising solutions for securing social media and discussed the various SN security perspectives.