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Photo sharing websites such as Photo-bucket,Imageshack and tinypic are monitored by peeping Toms for compromising photos of people.orkut and facebook are also targetted.Althrough these websites offer privacy settings,if the direct URL to a resource is known,it can be accesed.A"fusker"is a soft ware,orwebservicethatallowspeopletosearchfortheseimagesusingapattern,either a file name of a particular kindofcamera,orcustomtagsusedbytheuploader.This screenschot of a software with a name too obscene to be published,shows a fusker looking for images with either"apartment" or "nacked"as associated text strings in the name,tags or comments

Social Networking sites have a rich database of individual choices and preferences,but fortunately,the scope of current computational methods to distill this information for commercial purpose is very limited.The approaches that analytics services use to extract useful information from visitor activity on web sites can be used far more effectively on the wealth of information available if user interaction on social networking sites are tracked.social networking sites have a unique problem of having to provide a service that is both public and private,often letting the users chooseacomfortablelevel