A Critical Analysis of Privacy and Security on Social Media

Privacy and security are the main concern of any social media network sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and Linked In etc. The primary purpose of these sites is to allow people to share interests, activities, real-life connections. Lack of attention to privacy and security on social media does seem to be odds with the belief as individual responsibility. Network virtualization, media independence and FAME etc., are the technologies which are used for protecting the user´s information over the internet. In this paper, we describe various methods for securing the data with some threats and solution. Finally, concludes with a few suggestions as future research direction.