Social Networking Privacy

Have you ever been on social networking sites (SNS)? O has received an invitation to join SNS?
SNS were the most popular sites on the Internet world These days. The idea behind SNS is sharing interests in online community. According to Google, the social network Bebo and MySpace were the most searched for terms in 2006.
MySpace gets 300,000 people signing up every day with 50 million messages a day (more than Yahoo, Hotmail and Google), while Facebook received more than 14 files downloaded each day.
Have you ever wondered what the impact of information you leave on the Internet? The risk of identity theft is high due to leave fingerprints on the Internet. Internet fraudsters can join their information and generate user name and password for your online accounts. According The Internet security experts, three quarters of Facebook users make their profiles open to all at risk of identity fraud. Last year, Sky News reported of ten seconds a person in Britain to become a victim of cybercrime.
While some teens are using these sites to send pictures of themselves drinking and almost naked, the NHS has no control over online behavior Kid's, rather than parental responsibility. Here, the invited sexual predators probably NHS. And if teenagers can lie about their age and adults start appearing?
October 2006, a teenager named Megan Meier, Missouri, U.S. committed suicide after being teased on her MySpace page by a member of counterfeiting. Police arrested Aaron Clow 21 for having sex with 13 year old girl. It is suspected that the man had contact with underage girls via MySpace.
This was a common thing people lie to their identities on these sites. What is the purpose of contacting the person who lied about his name, age and residence? Can we term selfishness? As you can know the true, but I do not want? May or if the value of your personal information. One such incident was reported by news.com that Tom Anderson, founder of MySpace with a profile false in the NHS.
People registered at these sites may form and join groups with different interests. Besides the formation of groups such as, college classmates, groups can also be terrible. For example, people can organize themselves into pirates, gays, lesbians and even terrorist groups.
Some companies have begun to use SNS as a tool for screening and selection process in hiring. Send indecent images of you or you are doing wrong can lead to some difficulties. Besides the possibility to visualize your weekend the leader of his album of his photos can be modified and used without your knowledge. For example, last year, 20, Jason Johnson was expelled from the University of Cumberland, after revealing his homosexuality on the NHS.
Have you had time to read the privacy policies of these sites? Save account that the information inside can be used by the NHS without consulting you. For example, one of the states in an SNS privacy policy Hi5.com states that "… May Hi5 analyze the collected information to their own internal needs. In addition, in May Hi5 remove personally identifiable information the information obtained to be anonymous. Hi5 may use anonymous information for any purpose and disclose Anonymous Information in its discretion, … "
There was a rumor that the NSS data are used by government to monitor its citizens. Last year, MySpace has decided to give the states the names, addresses and online profiles of convicted sex offenders found that counts.

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