Social networking has been provided as an online service that focuses on building relations among people. Social networking services are web based and use a centralized infrastructure e.g. Internet connection and a website (e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, or twitter) for providing communication among users interested in making social network. Each user has to maintain a profile on a webpage of the web...

The advent of social networking websites presents further opportunities for criminals to obtain information for use in identity theft, cyber-stalking, and worse activities. This paper presents exploratory research investigating why users of social networking websites willingly disclose personal information and what sorts of information they provide (or not). The study employed an ethnographic a...

Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) is intelligence collected and inferred from publicly available and overt sources of information. Open-Source social media intelligence is a sub-field within OSINT with a focus on extracting insights from publicly available data in Web 2.0 platforms like Twitter (micro-blogging website), YouTube (video-sharing website) and Facebook (social-networking website). In...

“Web applications have become increasingly complex and highly vulnerable,” says Peter Wood, member of the ISACA Security Advisory Group and CEO of First Base Technologies. “Social networking sites, consumer technologies – smartphones, tablets etc – and cloud services are all game changers this year. More enterprises are now requesting social engineering tests, which shows an increased awareness...

This paper reports data about the learning performance of students using four different motivational tools: an educational game, a gamified plugin, a social networking website and a gamified social networking website. It also reports a control group. The data pertain to 379 students of an undergraduate course that covers basic Information and Communication Technology (ICT) skills in Spain. Data...

Many companies are using social sharing buttons to make it easier for consumers to refer a website or app to other potential consumers. Although these buttons are ubiquitous online, it remains unclear whether consumer referral propensity (i.e. the likelihood of consumers referring other consumers) varies across the channels through which consumers arrive at the website. In particular, we test w...

TPS237 Background: Fear of cancer recurrence is a universal experience among survivors and for many, fear persists years after treatment completion. Psychosocial interventions to teach strategies for managing these fears would improve quality of life, yet barriers to accessing psychosocial care exist. Internet-based approaches to deliver psychosocial interventions can overcome these barriers. E...

Social media has become something that is important to enhance social networking and sharing of information through the website. Social media have not only changed social networking, they provide a valuable tool for social organization, activism, political, healthcare and even academic relations in the university. The researchers conducted present study with objectives to a). examine the academ...

While many businesses seek to seize the momentum of social networking sites, the combination of technology-enabled social networks and e-commerce may offer significant opportunities for retailers. Social shopping sites emerged as the latest developments to leverage the power of social networking with online shopping. Despite enormous business interests and potentials, little is known about whet...