www.ijstr.org Security Metrics In Social Networking Applications

Abstract: Participation in social networking sites has dramatically increased in recent years. Social networking sites like Facebook1 or MySpace allow users to keep in touch with their friends, communicate and share content, ideas, activities, recommendations, with them, as well as engage in other multiuser applications. Services allow millions of individuals to create online profile and share personal information with vast networks of friends and often, unknown numbers of strangers. There are potential attacks on various aspects of user privacy. It is not well understood how privacy concern and trust influence social interactions within social networking sites. The continuous number of high-profile Internet security breaches reported in the mass media shows that despite an emphasis on security processes that there is still a gap between theory and practice. I intend in this research paper to propose a new model base on suggested model on social networking analysis and suggest a new security metrics to improve security and reduce the risks associated with users