Privacy and Security on Social Media

Social Media have become a integral part of human life. With over 1 billion users connected through online network. Social media is an online platform where we can share our information like text, photos, thoughts, videos, messages and many people have started to share seminar, workshop in Education domain and online survey, marketing, and targeting customers in Business domain. There are various social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Instagram etc. The main purpose of these sites is to allow people to share activities, interests, real life connections. Using social media we can communicate with the people in a world in a powerful and fun way. While enjoying on the social media platform it requires a great knowledge of privacy and security. The Internet is the safe place for only those people who are aware about the risk and the security, and can protect themselves from any fraud. Social media is a sometimes good because it allows you to share what actually we want to share, but it can also be used for negative purpose and in both the cases we are responsible for our security. In this paper we will describe about the privacy and security issues associated with social media. Rachana Khandagale | Manali Gamre "Privacy and Security on Social Media" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-5 , August 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd43821.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/computer-science/computer-security/43821/privacy-and-security-on-social-media/rachana-khandagale