A review of data security of blockchain applications in social media

Social media is a platform where people can interact with each other. Social media enables people to communicate with each other through various methods, such as voice calls, video calls, or text messages. Because of this, many users are willing to share their private information on the platform to utilize all its features. Though some of its features require us to share our information with the platform, this opens several risks that our private information can be breached, thus leading to many data security issues. To this date, numerous research, and discussions about blockchain implementations to improve the security of data in social media concepts such as smart contracts, decentralized databases, and IPFS are being explored by researchers in the hope of tackling this issue. This research aims to evaluate models proposed by numerous groups and analyze said models by comparing them based on their assigned variables. At the end of this research, we find 10 models that we think are best suited in the area of data security for social media, and 5 of the 10 models are chosen as the most interesting ones for further study and modification.