Sunil A. Khillare, Vaishali B. Shinde, C. N. Mahendar

ABSTRACT

The biggest innovation of last century is computer, whose development has sensationally increased with every passing year. Before the development of computer there were only three mediums for communication i.e. Gestures, Speech, and Writing. But after the tremendous development of computer era the novel media Internet has come to existence. Now-a-days internet has become the fourth media of communication, which provides high speed communication. While in the internet world, in last decade revolution of the social networking has become the greatest means of communication. But with every new thing, there are some pros and cons, and same happen with social networking sites (SNS). The negativity of the social networking sites dominates its merits. This paper describes impact and effects of these sites. It also presents the statistical data regarding their pros and cons and to make these sites more secure for the human society