Individuality theft is becoming a serious problems in all angles of the world, and with the development of technology like the internet, new ways to steal your identity are coming about every day. It is becoming harder and harder to protect yourself from this crime and make sure your personal data is safe is becoming a stable struggle. You wouldn't want to give your personal details to a total outsider, but the actuality is you are doing this every time you sign up to a social networking site.

This really happens mostly with the younger age group that uses these online social networking sites as a way of meeting new people and conversing with their friends. On signing up to these sites, they are asked to provide names, addresses, contact telephone numbers, dates of birth and schools they attended. This kind of information is being viewed by people that are viewing their profiles, and only a few of the sites have a system where your profile cannot be viewed unless you specially add them as a friend. Many of the users of the sites add other users as friends with no real idea that they are. That is the worst thing about the internet, it allows you to be who you want to be and come up with typeset.

Think of the ways that these social networking sites full name and also things like pet names, Mother's maiden name and other such information, it doesn't take a intellect to work out the rest. Not only can information be stolen this way, but names can be investigated on internet search engines and information can be found that way. A person could also try to be added to your friends list, without you actually knowing who they are and subtly ask questions in talk, such as home address, and other personal information that can be used to do identity theft.

This untroubled attitude to confidential details not only puts the users of the social networking sites at risk, but also the people that they live with are put broad open to the risk of identity theft. If a child or young self gives away personal information over the internet on these online social networking sites, their parents or keepers are at an enlarged risk of identity theft. A few carefully asked questions, accidentally dropped into conversation are hopeful the users of these sites to give away details that they wouldn't normally give away. What's your Dad's name? Where do you live? When's your birthday? How old are you? A model appears.

These are questions that could generally be seen as friendly conversation, but can very often lead to the switch of details that could potentially be used in the cases of identity theft.

The amazing thing is that many of these social networking sites have been under inspection in the media for the public access of individual information, but still it goes on. More and more people are signing up under proposal of their friends and family meaning that thousands, sometimes millions, of people are left wide open to the.