Fake Profile Detection in Instagram Online Social Network

Social network provides number of applications such as Myspace, Facbook, Twitter and many more through which users can connect with their friends and share their images and videos with them. Instagram is application of social network which is used to share images and videos with friends also tag a friend on an image and video. It is difficult to recognize which user is normal user or which user is malicious user. In this paper different techniques to recognize fake profile user has been surveyed and provide a mechanism to detect fake profiles in social network. This paper proposed a mechanism to detect normal posts using Random Forest classifier. The proposed mechanism has been analyzed using weka.