MySpace Identity Theft Protection Guide

Our Facebook Identity Theft Protection Guide provides six tips to prevent Facebook users from being victimized by identity theft. These six tips concentrate on two areas in which users can be proactive in protecting their identity and personal information: limiting the amount of personal information available and restricting your Facebook profile to people you know and trust. Many of these tips are also applicable when using MySpace, but there are some significant differences between various social networking sites. While Facebook is primarily geared toward one on one interaction with people you know in real life, MySpace is more frequently used to establish a larger and more public online presence and facilitate contact with large groups of people. While we still recommend that users only accept friend requests from people they know, we realize that this is not necessarily realistic. If you do choose to make your MySpace profile visible to strangers, we strongly encourage you to be extremely careful when publishing any information about yourself. Presumably, you would not walk around in public wearing a t-shirt printed with your birthday, phone number and address. So use the same discretion on MySpace. read more