Survey on Usage of Multimedia in Social Networks

Recent years have witnessed the rapid growth of multimedia data available over social networks on the Internet. The age of huge amount of multimedia collection provides users facilities to share and access data, while it also demands the revolution of data management techniques, since the exponential growth of multimedia data in social networks requires more scalable, effective and robust technologies to manage and index them. In this article, we provide a comprehensive survey on rapid growth of multimedia data available over social networks on the Internet. We introduce each paradigm and summarize related research efforts. In addition, we also suggest the emerging trends in this research area.