AdamH.us

I got this article in my маси и столовеWorldStart newsletter tonight.  And it clearly explains yet another reason I will never ever join a social networking site such as Facebook, MySpace, etc.

Social media data harvesting

It seems like everything on the internet these days is "social". Social media web sites like Facebook, Myspace and Twitter allow you to share interests, opinions, pictures and many other personal things with your friends on the Internet. While sharing these things with friends is what these sites are made for, it’s not just friends that can view your personal information.

Social media harvesting is a new way of stealing identities on the internet. Data harvesters collect your personal data from many locations on the Internet and combine it. With all of this data combined, they can identify enough about you to steal your identity. Here’s an example.

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