A Study on Retrieval of Information through Social Sites

Ashish Shah, Dr. A. S. Khandelwal

Online social networking sites have become one of the greatest social technological advancement of the 21st century. However, most users of such Social Networking Sites are unaware of the privacy issues related to their profile. By placing personal information on the site, users make themselves available to online traders for selling of their personal information to third parties and in some instances, websites owning everything, an individuals places on their profile page or friends page, including photos. The problem is intensified because of the fact that communicating online via social networking sites has become not only popular but fashionable and also a necessity for the youth in order to maintain their online social connection among friends. Because of this, young people are especially at risk of exposing themselves when sites are joined without any thought as to what may happen to personal information, photos and video. This paper looks to privacy issues of online social networking sites from around the world such as Myspace, Facebook as social site.