Novel Trust Computation Architecture for Users Accountability in Online Social Networks

The Online Social Network (OSN) is a growing platform which enables people to get hold of news, communicate with family and old friends with whom they have lost contact, to promote a business, to invite to an event of friends and to get people to collaborate to create something magical. With the increasing popularity in OSNs, Researchers have been finding out ways to stop the negative activities over the social media by imposing the privacy settings in the leading OSNs. The privacy settings let the user to control who can access what information in his/her profile. None of these have given the entity of trust enough thought. Very less number of trust management models has been implemented in the OSNs for use by the common users. This paper proposes a new 3 Layer secured architecture with a novel mechanism for ensuring more safer online world. It provides a unique global id for each user, evaluates and computes the Trust Factor for a user, thereby measuring the credibility of a user in the OSN space.