Abstract
There are many benefits, but also risks related to using the social networks. Among the benefits of social networking belong an easy way to be kept in touch, sharing news, photos, videos and statuses with friends, colleagues, but also meeting new people with similar interests. The risks include, in particular, loss of privacy, misuse of shared records, abuse of personal data, unknown real identity of social network members, and even addiction on social networking.The paper focuses the need to invent a complex tool of prevention in the field of controling the criminality in particular the users of social networks. In the papers is introduced a proposals how to develop a specific prevention tool called Userfocus. Further, there are described techniques to implement this tool into the social networks. The work comprises a research (questionnaire survey) aimed at users of social networks and their understanding of prevention in social networks. The results showed that the communication (interaction) among social network users is a main reason to actively use those services, loss of privacy is the most negative aspect of social networking, the perceiving of users related to the fight against antisocial networks is mostly negative, they strongly agree with the necessity to apply preventive methods focusing the user of social networks and consider the developing the preventive techniques and their application by competent authorities in prevention of crime on social network.
Highlights
Crime prevention is a very important tool in fighting the crime and other antisocial activities
Looking at the structure, meaning and purpose of Userfocus, it can be stated that it is one of the appropriate tools to be implemented in this environment, the results results achieved with this tool, even they are really measurable, can be detected during its real application
In comparison with already published studies in the field of crime prevention in cyberspace, it can be stated that there raises a real need for the creation of these prevention tools and techniques which are applicable in the real environment of social networks, respectively in cyberspace and are intended to reduce or eliminate straight antisocial activity, educate users and act on potential offenders or persons who have committed the offenses
Summary
Crime prevention is a very important tool in fighting the crime and other antisocial activities. It was necessary to develop a system capable to store the information in sufficient quality and to create useful databases, which concentrate the quantity and can classify it, so the user, respectively the end user of information is able to quickly and find what he need. Today it can be said it is not so important to know the information, but it is important to know where to find this information. The technologies that were primarily developed for communication among people, they are well advanced to create a more global structure, which can be called a social network
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