In the age of social media, online social networks (OSNs), such as Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn, are indispensable for the majority of Internet users. To some, OSNs are as essential to their lives as electricity. These platforms enable OSN users to share content including status updates, pictures videos, comments, tags, and messages, with other people. Although most OSNs have been frequently ...

Online Social Networks (OSNs) have become one of the major platforms for social interactions. Privacy control is deployed in popular OSNs to protect user’s data. However, user’s sensitive information could still be leaked even when privacy rules are properly configured. We investigate the effectiveness of privacy control against privacy leakage from the perspective of information flow. Our anal...

Most popular Online Social Networks (OSNs) in today’s world, such as Facebook, Orkut and Twitter impose restrictions on the number of friends / connections that a member can have in the network. This is primarily due to two reasons to limit spam and to reduce the strain on the system due to member-to-all-friends communication. We study the effects of such restrictions on node-degree, on the top...

Based on the insights learned from the case analysis of the Facebook News Feed outcry, we develop a theoretical understanding that identifies major drivers and impediments of information disclosure in Online Social Networks (OSNs). Research propositions are derived to highlight the roles of privacy behavioral responses, privacy concerns, perceived information control, trust in OSN providers, tr...

Online Social Networks (OSN) are experiencing an explosive growth rate and are becoming an increasingly important part of people’s lives. There is an increasing desire to aid online users in identifying potential friends, interesting groups, and compelling products to users. These networks have offered researchers almost total access to large corpora of data. An interesting goal in utilizing th...

Online Social Networks (OSNs) play an important role for internet users to carry out their daily activities like content sharing, news reading, posting messages, product reviews and discussing events etc. At the same time, various kinds of spammers are also equally attracted towards these OSNs. These cyber criminals including sexual predators, online fraudsters, advertising campaigners, catfish...

User navigation Understanding gives both the researchers and firms the opportunity to design better interfaces, gain more active users and richer studies of online social interactions. This study is based on the clickstream data, collected over 15 days period, summarizing HTTP session of over 25000 valid requests of Middle east users from popular social networks like Facebook, Instagram, twitte...

To date, much research has been conducted on the positive and negative effects of online social networking (OSN). However, how users perceive others and themselves being subject to these effects and the consequences of users’ perceptions are understudied. Drawing from the third-person effect theory, this study examines the self-other perceptual gap for positive and negative effects of OSN and t...

The ability of companies to react changes imposed by the market can be aided information acquisition and knowledge generation. Big data technologies, crowdsourcing, Online Social Networks (OSN) are used for These technologies have assumed a significant position in agribusiness recent decades. This work investigates how social network analysis promote provide basis future applications evaluation...

Detecting and suspending fake accounts (Sybils) in online social networking (OSN) services protects both OSN operators and OSN users from illegal exploitation. Existing social-graph-based defense schemes effectively bound the accepted Sybils to the total number of social connections between Sybils and non-Sybil users. However, Sybils may still evade the defenses by soliciting many social connec...