Online Social Networks:Analytical Review of Challenges and Possible Recommendations

Online Social Networksare the backbone for online communication. Social Networking Sites providevirtual community for online users to share their thoughts, activities, interests, pictures etc. These sites are fastest, easiest and cheapest way for communication that’s why Social Networking Sites become more popular in the world wide. Each user of Online Social Network has their own profile, which contain user personal information (name, contact number, address, date of birth, hobbies, interest etc). Some commonly used Social Networking Sites are Face Book, Twitter, My Space, Google Plus and LinkedIn. Among all of these, face book has peak value users.Default privacy setting of Face Book is public where each and every user is able to access each other information without awareness. Face book provide privacy up to some limit but these privacy are hard to implement for a common user.Existing privacy policies of Online Social Networks are unable to protect user personal information. In proposed work we have discuss major problems related to Online Social Networks privacy and different types of attacks on Online Social Networks/users, finally we proposed some recommendation, which improve privacy of Online Social Networks and reduces attacking risks.