The online world is filled with shady personalities and this social networking trend is making life a heaven for hackers, identity thieves and swindlers online.  Everyone can be your friend on the social network crowd as it’s never really customary to check who is requesting you to be included in a friend’s list.  There’s really no way to go about that and statistics show that 40% to 50% of the time, people accept friendship invites.

Your social site is a wealth of information thieves can take advantage of.  Anyone can masquerade to be a friend online.  Just be careful what you post there.  Like announcing to your friends you’d be on vacation for a week.  That’s as good an invitation for thieves to break into your homes while you’re away.  It won’t take that much cunning for seasoned hackers to check your address from data you have on your social network site.