Online Trust in Teen Communities

Abstract

Consistently, individuals from everywhere throughout the world connect, share and exchange data over Internet. We communicate online to share individual data, discover answers to inquiries, direct money related exchanges, play social recreations and keep up proficient and individual connections. “Online Social Network (OSN) is a set of personal contacts through which the people maintains their social identity and receive emotional support, material aid, services, information and new social contacts” [1] like Facebook, Orkut etc. Online Social Network gives a virtual situation where people can share their stories, pictures, recordings, and take part in chat rooms for online chatting with their friends and associates. In the last decade, Online Social Networks (OSN) have expanded ubiquitously. More people use OSN to share their interests and make associations, [1] likewise, OSN help people to overcome geographical impediments. Despite of its advantages OSN has also raised some privacy concerns for users. Many people have lost their jobs [86], lives [89], become bullied [4], hacked [4] etc. because of privacy issues of OSN. The situation is even worst for teens who get emotionally, socially and physically compromised due to interactions over online social networks. This is because of the fragile psychology of teens as they are more inclined to pulls of fascination [4,38], emotionally immature [3], more inclined to sensual offers [3,5] and easily grasped by fraudulent [3]. Thus, there is a need of an application that can evaluate, maintain and exhibit the community trust over acquaintances for teens. Trust is an essential part of connections in online social networks whether it is for security, deciding information access, or recommender systems [8]. In this thesis, the student has analyzed issues of teenagers and the factors that affect the formation of end user trust in online environments. After exploring the factors, the student has proposed a framework portraying various stages and their elements important to build trust among people. On the basis of framework, a reputation model is proposed, which xi ensures that a stranger or an acquaintance is trustworthy or not. Our proposed method basically judges people on the basis of their reputation, trustworthiness, honesty, benevolence, integrity, compatibility, confidence etc. The method is also implemented using dot net framework and SQL server. The student generates a new app on Facebook App. Then, the student gets Facebook App Key and App Secret Key. After that, in dot net framework the student gets built in Facebook Configuration Dll. Then, the student creates an instance of Facebook Dll Class and set its App Key and App Secret Key. Then, ask the User Current Session Token Context to be used by Facebook. Then, it will check for Permissions assigned to us by the User on FaceBook. The application was also tested and evaluated by teens on the basis of usefulness, ease of use, ease of learning, satisfaction, and system capabilities. The questionnaire was validated through inter-item and inter-variable correlation which appeared to be sufficiently significant. Moreover, Cronbach’s Alpha test was carried out for internal consistency which also appears to be statistically significant. The average users’ response over the variable and their items suggests that teens are satisfied with the proposed approach and it really helped them to identify trustworthy and well reputed friends