The massive digitalization and the global accessibility of the internet have been incredibly positive for the social media market. As per some reports, the number of users on social networks is expected to cross 3.43 billion by 2023 which is a third of the entire planet earth. The numbers themselves are competent enough to show the widespread use of social networks globally. Social media is a platform that has its own set of pros and cons. It allows a common platform for connecting and socializing with people. Different businesses and brands tend to fight social media as a great way of marketing their products and services. It certainly proves to be a platform where one even gets to know and learn about the events happening worldwide. 

Though, the cons of being on social media cannot be ignored. The common factor in most of the serious cons of social media is majorly due to the absence of ID verification of users prior to creating accounts on such public platforms. Topping the list would be online abuse/ trolling. An internet troll is an individual with the intention of grabbing public attention by engaging in flame wars. They typically do so by posting on the comments sections of various social networking sites. The sole purpose of such trolls is to create conflicts and controversies in their target’s life. They use online platforms for abusing, harassing, demeaning, and even threatening innocent people all day long for their own amusement. They execute such notorious deeds by posting upsetting, and abusive messages in the online community like different public chat rooms, internet forums, comment sections of several social networking sites, and many such ways. The sole agenda behind this degrading task is to provoke the individuals to ultimately trigger emotional responses and, in turn, grabbing attention mostly from known and famous personalities. 

According to estimates, on an average basis, 25 percent of the users of social networking platforms go through online trolling globally. Its widespread use has been massive as it exists on every nook and corner of the internet causing utter disruption in people’s lives. The single most cause of such an increase in internet trolling of harassing people online is due to comfortably hiding behind fake names and identities. Moreover, the known fact of having to pay no accountability for such actions certainly encourages the bad guys. The rise of such malicious activity is directly linked with the absence of ID verification of users while creating accounts on online platforms. While the victim has the right to report and block such bad guys, the lack of ID verification enables the creation of multiple accounts by the same person thereby not solving the problem in a complete sense. Complete anonymity is unfortunately the major driving force for internet trolls. 

Online trolling has got to be taken seriously as it has been affecting people’s mental and psychological health on extreme levels. It is no different from physical bullying which generally happens in schools and universities and that is punishable. The only difference here would be the availability of the shield of anonymity with the online trollers. People who are not very strong mentally can easily fall victim to online trolling. The fact of being publicly shamed and embarrassed shaken up their confidence, in most cases causing severe problems of anxiety and depression. These trollers have little or even no care for people and they go on and on to target individuals after individuals by totally disrupting their peace of mind. Victims of such malicious trolling tend to fall so weak that they even have suicidal thoughts. It is of the utmost urgency for the governments of different countries to take serious actions to prevent this crime. Moreover, there is a need to instill fear among such bad guys. This can be easily achievable by the installation of ID verification requirements for each and every user wanting to create an account online. The little change in signing up from the requirement of a mail account to now providing the real and true identity of oneself can make a huge difference on all the social media networking sites, making it a better and safer place to be on. 

AZYO is now in the market and ready to help the different social networking sites in achieving user ID verification. It is here to enable the different online platforms to provide a seamless process of identity verification to the users and not scare them off by technical and lengthy procedures. Let’s face it, customers’ expectations are constantly evolving and they like to have a smooth experience. Not only a smooth, robust, and user-friendly platform, but a developer-friendly interface is developed for the businesses to easily integrate AZYO’s solution to either homegrown or any 3rd party applications.


AZYO’s solution is an amazing fusion of Real Optical Character Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain & Facial Biometrics to verify anyone, anywhere, and anytime. AZYO’s Artificial Intelligence and its subsets of machine learning plus deep learning make it possible to accurately process, verify, and authenticate identities at scale.