Anonymous Profile Management for Social Networking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing instant messaging services (IMS) lack the ability to facilitate social networking activities with anonymous profiles, limiting users' ability to engage in SNS activities without exposing personal information, especially when interacting with strangers.
Innovation Solution
The integration of multiple anonymous profiles linked to a single user account within the IMS, allowing users to create and manage these profiles for participating in anonymous chatrooms and performing SNS activities, such as posting content, while maintaining user anonymity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If users participate in open chatrooms using anonymous profiles, then user privacy protection is improved, but the ability to perform SNS activities and reuse profiles is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the user account into multiple independent anonymous profiles, each capable of performing SNS activities separately. This allows users to create multiple anonymous identities (e.g., first anonymous profile, second anonymous profile) under one account, enabling diverse SNS participation while maintaining privacy protection for each profile.
Solution Approach 2:
The anonymous profile system is designed to be universal, allowing the same anonymous profile to be used across multiple functions: participating in open chatrooms, performing SNS activities (posting, commenting, liking), and reusing the profile for different interactions. This multi-functionality resolves the limitation of single-use anonymous profiles.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple anonymous profiles are created and managed, then SNS activity capability is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges multiple anonymous profiles under a single user account, allowing centralized management of what would otherwise be separate identities. The user account acts as a container that organizes and manages multiple anonymous profiles, reducing the complexity of managing completely separate accounts while still enabling diverse SNS activities.
Solution Approach 2:
The user account serves as an intermediary between the external system and multiple anonymous profiles. It mediates authentication, authorization, and management operations, allowing users to create, switch between, and manage multiple anonymous profiles without directly handling the complexity of each individual profile's backend management.
3Ease of operation
If anonymous profiles are reused for multiple chatrooms, then user convenience is improved, but the risk of personal information exposure increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates multiple anonymous profile copies under one user account, each serving as a separate identity for chatroom participation. Users can switch between these profile copies when joining different chatrooms, maintaining convenience of reuse while ensuring that personal information associated with the main user account remains protected behind the anonymous profile barrier.
Data Source
AI summary
A method of providing information on a social networking service (SNS) activity to a chatroom, performed by a user terminal, includes: transmitting, to a server, an SNS request for each of a plurality of anonymous profiles created to be interlinked with an account of a user for an instant messaging service (IMS); displaying information on an SNS activity performed through a first anonymous profile selected by the user in correspondence with a chatroom in which the user participates in the IMS, from among the plurality of anonymous profiles, in the chatroom; receiving an input of changing a profile of the user, selected corresponding to the to chatroom, from the first anonymous profile to a second anonymous profile; and displaying information on an SNS activity performed through the second anonymous profile in the chatroom.