Social networks may pose online security risk

 

Source: Martha Irvine, Associated Press ( Free Registration )

CHICAGO - Sarah Brown is unusually cautious when it comes to social networking.

The college sophomore doesn’t have a MySpace page and, while she’s on Facebook, she does everything she can to keep her page as private as she can.

“I don’t want to have to worry about all the different online scandals and problems,” says Brown, an education major at St. Joseph College in Connecticut. She’d like to control her personal information and keep it out of the hands of identity thieves or snooping future employers. “It’s just common sense.”

It sounds like her info is locked down and airtight. But is it?

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