Facebook Watchdog: A Research Agenda for Detecting Online Grooming and Bullying Activities

Abstract

Due to the rising popularity of communications taking place in social networks, an inconsiderable part of interpersonal interactions of young people is performed online. By introducing novel communication media, new risks and threats, such as cyber bullying, -stalking and online grooming, emerge. The main affected group in this context are children between 12 to 17. The major contribution of this paper, is a research agenda for a Facebook Watchdog application pursuing the aim to detect the above-mentioned threats to improve the situation. Threat indications are determined by image analysis, social media analytics, and text mining techniques in order to raise awareness about ongoing attacks and to provide assistance for further actions.