A survey on Online Spam detection Methods in Social Networking sites

Social networks continuously grow in popularity. Most of the Internet users access the web for social networking sites. The Web sites are organized around contents in the form of text. But online social networks are organized around users. Because of the popularity most of the cyber criminals have utilized social networks as a place to per- form their illegal activities. There is a need to create the techniques and methods to identify these malicious ac- tivities and the criminal in an effective and fast manner. There are many researches are going on this area. But that are insufficient. Still several methods are needed. Criminals use the social networks to send spam mails, to spread malwares, to hack the accounts, and to involve and hack some business applications, financial transac- tions. This paper presents a study and analysis of the online spam detection in social networks. Several meth- ods are available to find the online spammers. The re- sults of this analysis show that, there is a lack in social networks security. Here, given a discussion about the impact of online social networks at the hands of spammers.