Privacy in Online Social Networks.

Social networking is the latest craze that has captured the attention of masses, people use them mainly to communicate with their real life friends, but these sites claim to be your virtual life on the internet where one could do most of the things they do in real life. Privacy is one issue that suddenly comes to mind when your information is available online for every one to see. In this paper we examine how privacy of a user is affected by social networking sites, what kind of information users share with in their online profiles, what can be the implications for users when sharing information. Before ending the paper I will also discuss some of the steps that can be taken to help protecting one's privacy when using such social networking web sites.