Authors : Safayet Bin Kamal

Volume/Issue : Volume 9 - 2024, Issue 11 - November

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DOI : https://doi.org/10.38124/ijisrt/IJISRT24NOV447

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Abstract : In this era of digitalization, the number of users of social networking sites, especially females, is increasing significantly in Bangladesh. Social networking sites see users as a great platform for expressing their ideologies, thoughts and feelings with others. Women users share their personal problems, emotional needs and also use as stress reliever in social networking websites like Facebook, Instragram, Twitter, Viber, Google, Imo, Messenger and so on. Cyber bulling, pornography, hacking, virtual rape, blackmailing are common nature of online victimization to face by young women more likely than men that is sexual and violent in social networking sites. This study is made with an aim to present the actual causes of women victimization in social networking sites and tends to explore the current nature and its impact on women in their daily lives. This study demonstrates that social networking sites have opened up a new platform of socialization. Women user seems to be greater tendency to share their private information and activities with unknown person targeted as potential victims by the criminals. Lack of awareness, improper security setting, insufficient knowledge, moral devaluation, ignorance and negligence of policy guidelines increases victimization such experiences create insecurity, depression, isolation, damage relations and to a very large extent suicide. Cyber victimization relatively new phenomenon it becomes a major challenges for cyber security world. Greater awareness, proper privacy setting, legal laws and regulation, raise voice against cybercrime, immediate actions taken by the SNWs authority can overcome this problem.

Keywords : Victimization, Cyber Bulling, Cyber Stalking, Hacking, Social Network.

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