Filtering Unwanted Messages in Online Social Networking User walls

Filtering Unwanted Messages in Online Social Networking User Walls

ABSTRACT:

One fundamental issue in today’s Online Social Networks (OSNs) is to give users the ability to control the messages posted on their own private space to avoid that unwanted content is displayed. Up to now, OSNs provide little support to this requirement. To fill the gap, in this paper, we propose a system allowing OSN users to have a direct control on the messages posted on their walls. This is achieved through a flexible rule-based system, which allows users to customize the filtering criteria to be applied to their walls, and a Machine Learning-based soft classifier automatically labeling messages in support of content-based filtering.

PROJECT OUTPUT VIDEO:

EXISTING SYSTEM:

Indeed, today OSNs provide very little support to prevent unwanted messages on user walls. For example, Facebook allows users to state who is allowed to insert messages in their walls (i.e., friends, friends of friends, or defined groups of friends). However, no content-based preferences are supported and therefore it is not possible to prevent undesired messages, such as political or vulgar ones, no matter of the user who posts them.

DISADVANTAGES OF EXISTING SYSTEM:

• However, no content-based preferences are supported and therefore it is not possible to prevent undesired messages, such as political or vulgar ones, no matter of the user who posts them.
• Providing this service is not only a matter of using previously defined web content mining techniques for a different application, rather it requires to design ad-hoc classification strategies.
• This is because wall messages are constituted by short text for which traditional classification methods have serious limitations since short texts do not provide sufficient word occurrences.

PROPOSED SYSTEM:

The aim of the present work is therefore to propose and experimentally evaluate an automated system, called Filtered Wall (FW), able to filter unwanted messages from OSN user walls. We exploit Machine Learning (ML) text categorization techniques to automatically assign with each short text message a set of categories based on its content.

The major efforts in building a robust short text classifier(STC) are concentrated in the extraction and selection of a set of characterizing and discriminant features. The solutions investigated in this paper are an extension of those adopted in a previous work by us from which we inherit the learning model and the elicitation procedure for generating pre-classified data. 

ADVANTAGES OF PROPOSED SYSTEM:

• A system to automatically filter unwanted messages from OSN user walls on the basis of both message content and the message creator relationships and characteristics.
• The current paper substantially extends for what concerns both the rule layer and the classification module.
• Major differences include, a different semantics for filtering rules to better fit the considered domain, an online setup assistant (OSA) to help users in FR specification, the extension of the set of features considered in the classification process, a more deep performance evaluation study and an update of the prototype implementation to reflect the changes made to the classification techniques.

MODULES:

1. OSN User module
2. Filtering process module
3. Online setup assistant module
4. Blacklisting process
5. Admin module

MODULES DESCRIPTION:

1.OSN User Module:

In this module, users can create and manage their own “groups” (such like the new Face book groups pages). Each group has a homepage that provides a place for subscribers to post and share (by posting messages, images, etc.) and a block that provides basic information about the group. Users can also enable additional features in their owned page like view friends list and add friends by using friend’s requests as well as share their images with selected group’s members. The status of their friends requests are also updated in this module

2.Filtering Process Module:

 In defining the language for FRs specification, we consider three main issues that, in our opinion, should affect a message filtering decision. First of all, in OSNs like in everyday life, the same message may have different meanings and relevance based on who writes it. As a consequence, FRs should allow users to state constraints on message creators. Creators on which a FR applies can be selected on the basis of several different criteria; one of the most relevant is by imposing conditions on their profile’s attributes. In such a way it is, for instance, possible to define rules applying only to young creators or to creators with a given religious/political view. Given the social network scenario, creators may also be identified by exploiting information on their social graph. This implies to state conditions on type, depth and trust values of the relationship(s) creators should be involved in order to apply them the specified rules.

3.Online setup assistant module:

In this module, we address the problem of setting thresholds to filter rules, by conceiving and implementing within FW, an Online Setup Assistant (OSA) procedure. For each message, the user tells the system the decision to accept or reject the message. The collection and processing of user decisions on an adequate set of messages distributed over all the classes allows computing customized thresholds representing the user attitude in accepting or rejecting certain contents. Such messages are selected according to the following process. A certain amount of non neutral messages taken from a fraction of the dataset and not belonging to the training/test sets, are classified by the ML in order to have, for each message, the second level class membership values.

4.Blacklisting Process module:

A further component of our system is a BL mechanism to avoid messages from undesired creators, independent from their contents. BLs are directly managed by the system, which should be able to determine who are the users to be inserted in the BL and decide when users retention in the BL is finished. To enhance flexibility, such information is given to the system through a set of rules, hereafter called BL rules. Such rules are not defined by the SNM, therefore they are not meant as general high level directives to be applied to the whole community. Rather, we decide to let the users themselves, i.e., the wall’s owners to specify BL rules regulating who has to be banned from their walls and for how long. Therefore, a user might be banned from a wall, by, at the same time, being able to post in other walls.

Similar to FRs, our BL rules make the wall owner able to identify users to be blocked according to their profiles as well as their relationships in the OSN. Therefore, by means of a BL rule, wall owners are for example able to ban from their walls users they do not directly know (i.e., with which they have only indirect relationships), or users that are friend of a given person as they may have a bad opinion of this person. This banning can be adopted for an undetermined time period or for a specific time window. Moreover, banning criteria may also take into account users’ behavior in the OSN. More precisely, among possible information denoting users’ bad behavior we have focused on two main measures. The first is related to the principle that if within a given time interval a user has been inserted into a BL for several times, say greater than a given threshold, he/she might deserve to stay in the BL for another while, as his/her behavior is not improved. This principle works for those users that have been already inserted in the considered BL at least one time. In contrast, to catch new bad behaviors, we use the Relative Frequency (RF) that let the system be able to detect those users whose messages continue to fail the FRs. The two measures can be computed either locally, that is, by considering only the messages and/or the BL of the user specifying the BL rule or globally, that is, by considering all OSN users walls and/or BLs.

5.OSN Admin Module:

In this module, the admin manage all user’s information including posting comments in the user status box. Each unwanted message has an alert from admin that provides a place for post and share for the respective user walls. And admin can see blocked message from the users and also that provides information about the user who used the blocked message. Admin can also enable additional features in their owned page like user list, adding unwanted message, update unwanted messages, Blocked users list and finally filter performance graph. And also in this module, we show the performance evaluation of the system in the graph.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:

HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS: 

• System : Pentium i3 Processor
• Hard Disk : 500 GB..
• Monitor : 15’’ LED
• Input Devices : Keyboard, Mouse
• RAM : 4 GB.

SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS: 

• Operating system : Windows 10/11.
• Coding Language : C#.net.
• Frontend : ASP.Net, HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
• IDE Tool : VISUAL STUDIO.
• Database : SQL SERVER 2005.