COMPARISON STUDY OF SECURITY FEATURES IN OSN

Shelma Joseph.M, Niyas Narimukkil

Abstract: An OSN user has lot of concern about their own privacy. Any user who is a active participant of any online social media network has a very important part of educating themselves and their near ones about the way security and privacy settings are configured. Though OSN is there for lot of things like getting connected to people, posting our views, photos and videos but it is also a hub for hackers and scammers and makes things worse for others. The goal of this paper is to make a comparative study about the different security features that is there in OSN .We are discussing from the initial stages of an OSN and explain how a user can decide about his privacy and security features.

Keywords: Facebook, Security, Photo, Photo Sharing, Tagging

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2016.0531010