Social networkingservices as a tool of mass communication

Abstract

The modern social networking service (SNS) industry has many ways to organize its actors’ interactions and grant access to the content. Though having positive communication features, SNS are a source of potential threats to national security since their destructive outreaches can change public attitudes. This presents a challenge to controlling SNS actors’ interactions. Actors using several social networks as well as authorities neglecting regulations for SNS activities make it harder to synthesize efficient controlling techniques. The article suggests a mechanism for classifying modern SNS by their features and in a hierarchical fashion. This mechanism could unify the control synthesizing procedures for the virtual unity’s transition to the desired state of information security. The classification suggested for SNS is recommended as the basis for the National cybersecurity system.