User Identification Framework in Social Network Services Environment

Abstract

Social Network Service is a one of the service where people may communicate with one another; and may also exchange messages even of any type of audio or video communication. Social Network Service as name suggests a type of network. Such type of web application plays a dominant role in internet technology. In such type of online community, people may share their common interest. Facebook LinkedIn, orkut and many more are the Social Network Service and it is good medium of making link with people having unique or common interest and goals. But the problem of privacy protection is a big issue in today's world. As social networking sites allows anonymous users to share information of other stuffs. Due to which cybercrime is also increasing to a rapid extent. In this article we preprocessed the web log data of Social Network Services and assemble that data on the basis of image file format like jpg, jpeg, gif, png, bmp etc. and also propose a framework for victim's identification.Keywords: Preprocessing, Web Log Data, Social Network Service, Data Mining, Cyber Crime1 IntroductionNow days we can see social networking services are growing day by day, First of all the term of social network is a social structure made of individuals (or organizations) called nodes, which are tied (connected) by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as friendship, kinship, financial exchange, dislike or relationships of beliefs, knowledge or prestige [8].Social networking is the grouping of individuals into specific groups, like small rural communities or a neighbourhood subdivision, if you will [3]. Generally some social services focus on the privacy issue too. Due to which one person could not see the friend link of other one. There are various types of social network are available. Personal networks-These kinds of network allow creating profiles online and linked with other person, with a focus on social linkage such as friendship. For example, Orkut, LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace are stage for communicating with contacts [9][4][13]. These kinds' networks involve users exchanging information with people. Statuses update networks-These types of social networks are developed to allow small status update to person in order to communicate with other persons. For example, Twitter, these types of network people may exchange messages or thoughts day by day. Location networks-These networks are developed to show one's real-time location, either as public information or as an update viewable to authorized contacts. Content sharing networks-These networks are designed as platforms for sharing content, such as music, photographs and videos. For example YouTube and Flicker. Shared interest networks-Some social networks are built around a common interest or geared to a specific group of people. These networks incorporate features from other types of social networks but are slanted toward a subset of individuals, such as those with similar hobbies, educational backgrounds, political affiliations, ethnic backgrounds, religious views, sexual orientations or other defining interests. For example LinkedIn [16].Figure 1 shows that the social relationships among different users. In social networking services any person can interacts another person we have shown the person using dot in the give Fig. and maintained its relationships through lines. In this network any number of users (u1, u2, u3 ...) can communicate each other.But their exists some services that do not suffer from such kind of issues like LinkedIn Facebook, orkut etc. 'Mutual friend' is that feature existing on such services which provides a way of connecting through other person.Mutual friends are the persons who are Social Networking Service (SNS) friends with both you and the person whose timeline you are viewing. Or we can say mutual friends are the common friends of a person. Suppose u1 is friend of u10 and u14 then u1 is mutual friend of u10, u14. According to Fig. …