Socializing electronics: Secure interactions in social networks

Social networks help us to follow friends and family daily lives. Home devices are rich in user's information so they are appropriate platforms to deploy social network applications. This article addresses two main requirements: content must be adapted to different devices and user's privacy must be respected. To enable social network interaction in home environments and to overcome privacy problems we present two home gateway applications: the Social Enabler and its counterpart the Social Watchdog.