WHY WORRY?

All social media sites have varying degrees of privacy settings and therefore concerns.

There is a spectrum of data that social networking sites require you to fill in before you can use their site... Facebook: Uses real names and personal information such as photos, telephone numbers, birthdays, personal interests and hobbies, sexual preference, relationship status and email. . . . Match.com encourages anonymity...but they need to contact you via email, phone number etc Even when networking sites encourage anonymity, users usually willingly provide their real names in addition to personal photographs	Potential Dangers 1. Identity theft: many users have high personal information displayed for the public. Ex. social security numbers, photos from social networking sites can be taken and used to steal ones identity 2. Stalking/sexual predators: high personal content added with twitter allowing users to tell the public where they are...sex offenders also use social networking sites 3. Employment dangers: Potential employers now search social media networks for possible traces of their potential employees, hiring decisions are made with social networks in mind	Users must agree to a code of user policy, which many users do not read some code of use policies allow social networking sites to store user data

There is a spectrum of data that social networking sites require you to fill in before you can use their site...Facebook: Uses real names and personal information such as photos, telephone numbers, birthdays, personal interests and hobbies, sexual preference, relationship status and email.