It seems almost every week I am posting some type of article about online identity, why, because it’s important. We monitor our children’s activity, but what do we practice ourselves? Social networks and dating services have the ability to connect people that would normally never meet, good in some ways, and maybe not so good in other ways.
When you go on vacation, maybe not always a good idea to broadcast to the world, and when you are gone having surgery, again not always a good idea to broadcast certain information across the web. With all the social networks being tied to an email address, get a disposable address to use for these sites too if they are not a business network. You can pick and choose exactly how far you may want to go or not go with social networks and a word to the wise is to keep anything off the web that you do not want to see on a website somewhere down the road. BD
San Francisco - With identity theft on the rise and personal information at a premium, it's never been more important to be cautious about what you reveal online. Social-networking sites such as Facebook have largely usurped chat rooms and forums -- at least in the grown-up world -- as fun places to hang around online and engage in harmless distractions. Unfortunately, they've also replaced chat rooms in the tabloid consciousness as the place where pedophiles go to pick up victims .Internet dating is notorious as a means of disguising your true age, occupation, weight, gender and intentions -- that's why it's so popular. If you want to use the web to meet people, then do so safely.
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