A Survey on Security and Privacy in Social Networks

Social media plays a vital role in the user community all over the globe. It makes it easy to communicate from one person to another person through these social media platforms. But these platforms are coming under various security issues and privacy of user-related data that make it tough to maintain. Test data generated from existing tools are used for analysis on these platforms. According to various roles in any real-world application, environment for the user, such as community deduction, analyzing user profiles, and preventing security threats, is performed on these data. In this paper, we have surveyed various factors related to security and privacy in a social network and listed various advantages and disadvantages of various approaches, thereby it acts as a base paper for future research work in the field of social networking.