Tools and Techniques to Prevent Misuse of Personal Information in Social Networking

Social Network sites are used by many people in recent years. There are a lot of security issues in using social networks nowadays. The success of any social network is based on the total number of users who use the social network. So the providers of the social network are forced to design a system, which will help to increase the numbers of users who use the social network and at the same time, the connections also. In any social network sites, security will not take the major role, because the main concept of the social network is to share the knowledge and ideas among all the people who involved in the social network site. This will cause social security risks. It would be good if the social network users are provided with security tool like any other tools. With the help of social security tool, the social network user can retrieve the information about another online user through chat or website. This paper will address about the tools for social network, that will help to reduce the security risks and also to determine the non personal information such as IP address and MAC address of the user.