A Social Network is a network which comprises of countless interactions among people whether they are personal or professional. Social networks provide us with a platform to interconnect with each other through text or media in the name of messages, comments, pictures, posts, tags etc. Nowadays, the number of social networks in on an exponential rise, Facebook and Twitter etc. being the renowned ones. Social networks are vast networks which store and maintain information with respect to each user in their databases. That information is mostly contributed by the users only. That contribution being a voluntary one or an uneducated one is entirely another matter. This was the first key motive for our research. Enforcing a secure and comprehensive login process to secure the access of social accounts was the second one. In this paper, we propose a tool to evaluate the vulnerability of Facebook accounts w.r.t the privacy options provided by the social network. We also propose a reinvented login process with an aim to eradicate the perils of unauthorized access to the accounts.

Social networks, SNS, Privacy, Data-exposure, Privacy check, Login Process, Reinvented

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