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Dangers Inside Your Social Network Profile

Social networks on the Internet have rapidly increased in popularity, especially over the past couple of years. Social networking web sites, like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube and others, are popular because they easily allow you to find, connect with, and develop friendships with other internet users, often ones that share the same interests as you. To find those individuals, you must join a social networking web site and create a profile. It is often advertised that your social networking profile is the key to making and finding friends online.

Your social networking profile is an important part of effective social networking when it comes to meeting other internet users. This is because, in most cases, internet users are looking to chat with someone who has the same goals, views, beliefs, and interests as they do. Without a personal profile, it would be difficult or impossible to tell what your interests are. That is why social networking profiles are not only important, but they are needed.

A lot of focus has been placed on what you should include in your social networking personal profiles or display on your profile pages. You have heard the saying "A Picture Says A Thousand Words" Your profile picture as well as other pictures of yourself on your pages, can say a lot about you and not always is it what you intended when you first posted the image(s). Although a picture and detailed personal information may help to increase your page views, you may be getting views that you do not necessarily want. Can you say - identity theft or worse. Despite what you may believe, most social networking web sites do not have restrictions on who can view your personal profile. In fact, internet users, even those that do not belong to your online community, can easily see profile.

Facebook recently went through some changes in the way your info is indexed by search engines. While this is major positive in added Google Juice for your FB content, it is a major negative when it comes to your privacy issues. With a huge amount of feedback, Facebook quickly made it easier to adjust your privacy settings in order to combat some of the riff-raff trolls that would use your unprotected identity details to do all sorts of dirty deeds.

Since anyone, literally anyone, can see your social networking profile, on most social networking web sites, you are advised to be cautious. Essentially, this means that instead of focusing on what you should put in your online profile, you should be focusing on what not to put. This is one the best ways to protect your safety, both on and offline.

As I just mentioned, pictures are often recommended with social networking web sites. While you will want to look your best, you are advised against posting a picture that is too revealing or seductive in nature. Most internet users can look at these types of pictures without feeling a thing, but for others these types of pictures spell danger.

Chances are pretty good that you are going to post a picture of yourself in your social networking web site profile. Just remember, when you do post that picture, you need to be careful about the rest of the information that you post. Although you may not necessarily think about it, a picture is just a picture, but combined with your name and address, it could be a deadly combination. It is a smart thing to only post your first name in your profile. This will make it more difficult for anyone to try and contact you off of the internet. When it asks for your birthday, just your month and day, or month and year but not always a good thing to post the month, day & year.

It is also advised that you carefully choose your location. A large number of online social networking sites require that you select a city, as well as a state. If it is allowed, you may only wish to list your state and not the city. If you are required to list the city and the state that you live in, you may want to think about using a nearby city or town, especially if you live in a small town. If an internet predator wanted to contact you and you lived in a small town, it could be fairly easy for them to find you. That is why it is advised that you carefully select the answer to the location question.

In addition to everything else I've mentioned, it is advised that you do not post detailed information on your children, the location of your home, your income, or when you will be leaving for vacation. By keeping these and the above mentioned points in mind, you should be able to enjoy online social networking without having to always look over your shoulder to see who is following you.

Thanks for reading and please leave me a comment or additional safety tips for social networking you would like to pass on.

Steve D

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