Networking Addiction

Staying in touch with friends and family has become easier than ever now thanks to social networking sites such as facebook and myspace. On the upside, you can broadcast what you are doing to everyone at once or to individuals with the click of a mouse. On the downside, it is very easy for personal information to leak out to others and photos to surface after wild nights. There are age restrictions on most sites, but it is easy to put down a different birth year if you really want to gain access, so they aren't much of a security feature. I have been the recipient of scammers via myspace messages, so I know how easy it can be for someone to try to be your friend and then weasel out info. As a result, I have the highest security settings you can have and I am only friends with people on the sites that I am friends with in real life. I communicate what I am up to, but I don't broadcast personal information like my address or phone number. I hope that using precautions such as this will lessen the chances of being targeted if someone wants to try anything hinky. You never know who may be out there and what their motives are, but protecting yourself in simple ways such as this can never hurt!