While reading Debbie Gartner's blog this morning http://activerain.com/blogsview/2616492/some-advice-on-receiving-and-sending-linkedin-invitations some thoughts came into my head. She made some excellent points but there are security issues with all the social networking sites.
LinkedIn and Twitter don't bother me as much but Debbie has a good point as the email does lead to some spam. I have gotten "spam" from AR also.
One of my friends told me to remove my maiden name from my Facebook page. Her son had told her to do so as many times security questions are "Mother's maiden name". With all the links, etc on FB it is easy to arrive at that answer. Not only that but when you have many "friends" on FB that you don't really look but are only linked due to a common thread such as realtor, what do you really know about that person? Are they really a Realtor or posing as one to become your "friend" on a social media site? So even if you are not public on FB, your "friends" can see your information. What do you know about those "friends"?
Well, we are in the midst of an oil boom here and we share our office building with company that buys oil leases. In that process they have to do title searches on land that go back over a 100 years. In talking to one of the employees, she told me it was very complicated and they have to talk or research numerous family members, title transfers, etc. One thing they use to trace family members is Ancestry.com. Made me think: what would keep a thief from joining Ancestry.com to do name searches for their nefarious purposes? Gives you the whole family tree with birth dates and dates of death also.
Scary how much personal info is already on the web. Call me paranoid but I don't "friend" someone I don't know already and I keep my personal info to a minimum on the web.
Sorry, Debbie, I don't know how to do the link back
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