Threats and the Protection of Electronic Information With Regard to Social Networks

The issues which appear today on electronic social networks and which are trying to be solved are as follows: (1) suppressing the addiction to e-social networking and “online” games on electronic social networks; (2) reducing the number of identity thefts for the participants in e-social networks; and the issue of (3) protecting the electronic information. Addiction to e-social networking among young people exists, while a lot of older people are becoming addicted to electronic social networks. Based on the domestic and foreign research results and their analysis, the paper proves that the addiction to e-social networks exists. The paper presents ways of fighting the addiction to e-social networking. One way of dealing with addiction to the Internet and “online” games on e-social networks, which is described in detail, is setting up parental controls in the operating system (used by addicts) by IT professionals. Today, besides this method of protection from addiction to e-social networks, a number of interesting protection activities, projects and lectures are to be implemented. When it comes to protecting user accounts on e-social networks, users should frequently change their password, and set a strong password. To prevent attempts of an attack on the user through computers, the systems for managing local computer network and the control of electronic information flow are implemented; thus the flow of e-information of social networks users is controlled, which is also described in detail in this paper. In the conclusion, recommendations are made and explanations are given whether to use or not to use e-social networks, considering all the negativity.