Defending Mechanism for Cyber Bullying

Abstract

The popularity and wide growth of the social networking sites over the communication world has resulted in its tremendous use. By using social networking sites, people are connected to each other in the world, usually they express their feelings, opinions and emotions. Popularity of the social networking sites cause major rise in offensive behavior, giving birth to one of the most critical problem called Cyberbullying and Online Grooming. The victims of Cyberbullying, broadly being the youngsters, undergo a deep scar which has led to suicidal attempts in many cases. Online harassment has become a common problem where the youngsters are highly targeted. Cyberbullying and Online Grooming are one of the attacks on social networking websites. Cyberstalking, child pornography, online sexual predators, sexual solicitation of children and compromising text and images with violent or sexual content are happening in online grooming attacks. Agenda for a defending mechanism for Cyberbullying is to detect and identify the above mentioned threats and safeguard the users of the social networking websites. Threat indications are determined by image analysis, social media analysis and text mining techniques in order to raise alertness about enduring attacks and to grant backing for further actions.