With the proliferation of the Internet, different online representations of social networks emerged, so-called online social networks (OSN), which allow for reflecting and building durable social networks over large distances. Unlike relationships in the physical world, OSN do not require a user to keep a connection alive by communicating at least sporadically. Instead, they foster the passive ...

In recent years, online social networks have become very popular. Online social networks (OSN) have been useful to find former classmates or to improve our interaction with friends. Thus, a huge amount of information is generated and consumed by millions of people in these types of networks. Currently, most popular online social networks are based on centralized servers, whom are responsible ma...

An Online Social Network (OSN) offering, usually centralized, online accessible SNS contain digital representations of a subset of the relations that their users, both registered persons and institutions, entertain in the physical world. Spanning all participants through their relationships, they model the social network as a graph. Every OSN user can typically create his or her own OSN profile...

The Online Social Networks (OSN) open a new vista serving millions of users and have reshaped the way people interacts. Unfortunately these networks are an emerging platform for cybercrimes such as sending malicious URLs, spams, etc. which causes a huge financial loss and social damage. In this paper, it is reviewed that OSN is a new cybercrime platform for threating agents because of the secur...

Online Social Network (OSN) mining has been a vast active area of research in the current years mainly due to the immense increase in the usage and popularity of such social networks. However, the huge amount of resources available in Online Social Networks (OSNs) poses a great challenge for researchers to analyze such networks. Also, the data generated from OSNs is dynamic and requires the nee...

Online Social Networks (OSN) becomes the largest infrastructure for social interactions like: making relationship, sharing personal experiences and service delivery. Nowadays social networks have been widely welcomed by people. Most of the researches about managing privacy protection within social networks sites (SNS), observes users as owner of their information. However, individuals cannot co...

Social Media has gained remarkable attention. This is due to the affordability of accessing social network sites such as Twitter, Google+, Facebook and other social network sites. Organizations and people relying on the Social Media for information and opinion of other users on diverse subject matters Online Social Network (OSN) mining has been a active area of research in the current years. Th...

This paper explores privacy calculus decision making processes for online social networks (OSN). Content analysis method is applied to analyze data obtained from face-to-face interviews and online survey with open-ended questions of 96 OSN users from different countries. The factors users considered before self-disclosing are explored. The perceived benefits and risks of using OSN and their imp...

This research aims to explain the negative side of ICT-enabled communications. Therefore, the perception of users that social interactions on online social networks (OSN) are threatening is suggested as a new variable called social interaction overload. The paper theorizes that individual, OSN-specific, and OSN-specific communication characteristics manifest the extent to which social interacti...

Online social networks (OSNs) have become popular platforms for people to interact with each other in the cyber space. Users use OSNs to talk about their daily activities, mood, health status, sports events, travel experiences, political campaigns, entertainment events, and commercial products, among other things. Conversations between users on an OSN site could reflect the current social trend...