Don't expect anonymity in Social Networks
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If you think the social network you are use to connect with friends is a God providing you numerous features to mark your presence online, then the God does not go without collecting duties. Social networks make money through several means, some of which are found to compromise the security of the user as well. Some networks sell information about the millions of users they have to advertisers who use such information to study the behavior of consumers and to make use of online trends.
Though social networks remove personal information from such kind of data, the data can be combined with other similar data online to reveal sensitive information about the user. Researchers from University of Texas, Austin, found that from matching data of users having accounts with both Twitter and Flickr, which display user information publicly, they could identify one third of users easily. And the worst part of it is that using the connection between the users and the pattern of social-network graph from different social networking sites, they could even obtain sensitive information about the user. Despite the fact that there are millions who tweet on Twitter and even more who use Facebook, the apparently sophisticated human behavior, like purchases, the friends we make and browsing trends, etc., makes us identifiable, even on the internet.
