Social media provides both opportunities and risk for any organization. In recent years the Internet has made everything possible. It is booming as it is available at low cost with high speed. People are attracted towards the use of social networking due to the virtual method of socializing people using various social media apps such as Instagram, Whatsapp, Twitter, Facebook etc. even though it has advantages equally there are many threats arising day by day. Usage of social media is high but awareness is least which leads to serious cyber attacks. There are different types of threats which make the users in trouble of cyber security risk. This paper analyzes different threats done on social media and gives solutions to those threats and sees different detection techniques.