COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR MITIGATING UNDESIRABLE SOCIAL MEDIA CONTACTS

A communication system and method rnitigates the risk of connecting to undesirable social media contacts. The systein and method may involve identifying trusted contacts of a user and saving them in a trusted contacts database, wherein the trusted rnembers can be one or more of (a) work contacts, (b) contacts from other social media sites, (c) friends and family, and (d) others. When a potential contact on a social media platform attempts to connect to the user, the identity of the potential contact is compared to the trusted contacts in the trusted contacts database. The user is then alerted as to whether the potential contact is in the trusted contacts database and the user can utilize that information to determine whether or not to connect to the potential contact. Alternatively, the proposed connection may be (1) automatically rejected is the potential contact is not in the trusted contacts database, or (2) automatically accepted if the potential contact is in the trusted contacts database.