Social Networks?

Social networking sites, such as Myspace and Facebook appearto be more than a passing phase with 250, 000 people joining every day.
Therefore security is a very important factor for the users of these such sites. Anyone can request to "be your friend" whether you know them or not.
Freddi Staur, the member of Facebook, who created an experiment last year to see just how many people accept requests from people they have never met. Shockingly 82 out of 200 people who were picked at random, not only accepted the request but revealed personal information about themselves that can be used by an identity thief.

Advice such as using false date of births, and hide as many details as possible if the networking site you are using has the option to do that. Anyone in the same network as you on Facebook is able to view all of the information about you that you choose to display. Setting you self to having no network can reduce the risks of ID theft.
PC Pro Magazine, May 2008 edition, has the full story on this, including lots more tips to keep you networking profile as private and safe as possible to you.