Social Netwoks and Digital Security

Social networks are of utmost popularity in current era. People from various age groups are part of them as it attracts the user and totally engage them. As most of the social networks are publically available for everyone, digital security is being compromised due to careless use of it. There arises number of vulnerabilities of threats which mostly the user is not aware of. These vulnerabilities could be addressed by possible counter measures. This paper is a comprehensive study on social networks, possible attacks on digital data and various security measures that user should definitely adopt to protect his identity and information on social networks. Answers to general question of “What to share?”, “how much to share” and “how is being shared?” are being discussed that will give necessary awareness to the nonprofessional user to be in social network smartly; in secure and protected environment as before.