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Developing an Educational
Infrastructure for Analyzing
and Securing Social Media
39.1 INTRODUCTION
Online social networks are online applications that allow their users to connect by means of various
link types. Since their inception in the mid- to late-1990s, social networks have provided a way for
users to interact, reective of social networks or social relations among, for example, people who
share interests or activities. Initially, critics regarded social media as a fad, a temporary fashion.
However, today, social media has demonstrated exponential growth, making it the most popular
activity on the World Wide Web. As the increase ...