How to Make Social Media More Effective as an Exploitation Area

Abstract

The immediate rise of social media has made a big change in the habits of communication. All the applications like Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and LinkedIn have gained a wide range of usage allowing the applicants have a very media to express themselves freely. The users of social media have a chance to articulate themselves, share their views and interact with the other. These opportunities also enable the intelligence workers to reach some information that is not possible to catch when directly asked for or cannot be dared to ask indirectly as it is not appreciated. Because, in social media, all the contents are built by the users willingly and the users of social media don’t feel themselves under threat as they build up the content without external push. So it is not possible to talk about privacy. Although some contents have limited access, when the size of unlimited ones are thought, social media presents a big opportunity for data mining. In today’s intelligence literature, social media is a subject of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT). This study tries to explain how to use social media more effectively as an exploitation area for intelligence staff.

Keywords

• Data Mining, Exploitation Area, Open Source, Social Media, Opportunity

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