Online interactions are tying people's lives together more than ever before. Social media sites 📱 make it much simpler to establish and sustain relationships for users. Unfortunately, it also provides opportunities for internet threats and fraudsters 🗣️. You must have experienced that sometimes you get added to spam groups or random unknown people sending you messages online on social media platforms like WhatsApp, and Instagram.

All of these suspicious activities pose substantial risks and can lead to serious cyber crimes🖥️. In response to these increasing challenges on social media, these platforms are launching their premium editions, which offer some extra features like faster download speeds, a distinctive collection of stickers, and animated profile pictures, these are all nice additions, but they do not fully shield you from spam.

Type Of Spamming Activities

People generally have an idea that spamming solely involves sending large numbers of texts but it is a lot more than that. Other ways of spamming you must have experienced spreading malicious links, fraudulent reviews, spam bots, and click-baiting. Let us look at the brief about them :

• Spreading malicious links that are designed to trick the user to damage their device is also included in spamming. When the link is clicked, several things can happen, including the downloading ⬇️ of harmful software and the theft of personal data.

• Fraudulent reviews 📉 happen when fake accounts get in touch with legitimate people and spread inappropriate content including insults, threats, and intrusive advertising.

• Spam Bots 🤖 can be programmed to automatically message content-posting users or follow new users.

• Click baiting 🖱️ is the practice of presenting exciting headlines to entice users to click through to the content. Its primary goal is to monetize false online advertising money.

All of these above-mentioned spamming happens due to the fact that it has become so simple to create a fake account on the social media platform and getting around the identity verification process is incredibly easy. Some techniques that are frequently used include password-only and email verification authentications. As a result, creating false accounts that spread fraud has become quite simple which leads to major spamming issues.

Do you now feel that there should be some revolution around these social media platforms where spamming, data privacy, and other fraudulent activities can be controlled?

After considering everything malicious happening on these platforms and to get prevention from such activities you need a democratized platform. An application that aims to provide 🔐 high security by using some distinctive mechanism such as token-gated groups/channels.

Now, you're probably wondering what is 🔐 "token gated channel" ?🤔

And How it is going to be helpful?

Let's understand what ‘token-gated channels’ are by first deconstructing the word:

• Token-gated: A mechanism where a group is accessed by only tokens. Here, ‘token’ means tokens in your crypto wallet.

• Channels/chats: A niche-specific group.

Token-gated channels/chats solve a crucial problem in organizations, teams, enterprises, and communities that want to connect and collaborate virtually with complete privacy and encryption.

Obviously, this will lead you to have several questions in your mind, such as:

How? What and Why 🤔

Let's discuss them now.

We bring you a solution to this hurdle people having specific tokens in their wallets will only be allowed in those exclusive groups/ communities to connect with each other. Here, token 🪙 can be anything like NFTs, Soulbound Tokens, or even simple ERC-20’s which will act as a pass to enter the community or groups. This will easily differentiate the genuine member from a spammer and it will also help in solving a key issue for those who want to communicate and work together online in total privacy.

We believe that the “Token Gated” technology is going to be a game changer for the users. We think it is the need of the hour to have a platform that gives exclusivity and spam free atmosphere.

So, we are really excited to tell you that we at MetaWork Labs has launched a communication platform that offers the finest messaging app, equipped with advanced security and token-gated features along with a layer of data inter-operability and inter-communication capabilities. ⌛⌛

Explore the Platform here: MetaWork Labs