I think that as long as you use these sites appropriately and responsibly, then you will never run into most of these problems! And i do agree, i also keep my profile private.

well I got on myspace and a 47 y/o wanted me and i am 18, and so i keep my profile private. i think too many bad things happen on the internet everyday that noone knows about, especiall with younger people.

I've actually become more conscious about my social networking. Since my enlightenment, I've made most of my accounts private. I left my twitter account public because people need to see what I post in order to decide whether or not they would like to follow me. I meet plenty of new friends that way. If twitter was to be a circle of only my close friends than I would privatize that as well. Regardless of any public or private status, I've taken a stance on vulgarity. At the wee hours of night you can often find tweeters talking about the raunchiest of subjects. While one can be intrigued by such conversation, when I step back and take an outsider looking in perspective, it just seems a tad barbaric. I don't want to be view that way so I've just ceased that behavior. Or merely direct message instead of the publicized tweet. For proof look me up. @chopster88

Well idk about all the internet sites being totally bad for you addicting yes but in a good way sometimes like when you have nothing to do!!!

I agree, this made me think twice about spending too much time on myspace and I'm so gonna keep my profile low. I ain't sharing my D.O.B. or address or my e-mail address.

A friend of mine took a picture at workand posted it on FB, wasn't super inappropriate but i thought it could've been misunderstood, well his boss who appreently is also on FB sent him a request to add. He didn't want to refuse his request so he accepted. And sure enough not too long after his add i see a comment from his boss about the pic. Be careful what you put up, even if he hadn't added the pic, he has various co-workers added as friends, and anyone of them could strike up water-cooler conversations about the picture.

I'm a civil-law student, undergraduate-Senior. Realisticly, your employer is very unlikely to give a flip in the unlikely event that s/he recognized something you said from a social-networking site. Worse, however, is some hacker using your information in ways that never occured to you to do things to you that are much worse than denying you a job that you would have liked. Bankruptcy? Dragging your whole family into bankruptcy with you? Just because some hacker used some information (compiled from several innocent-seeming things that you said) to take a vacation to Japan? All of which you (unwittingly) paid for? That'sabsurdly extreme, but how bad does it have to get? Things like that actually do happen. Point is: Be !!! careful what you put on the Net. (Personally, I have been burned in my own experience. That's part of why I'm so sensitive.) The threat is real! You may be talking to you beaux, but who else is silently listening in? On the Net, you never know. Everything you say(type) is like you're broadcasting it on TV-primetime. Be careful. (Ladies, that includes getting assaulted by a stranger; these days, guys, that means you, too.) PS: In the USA, if you file for personal bankruptcy, they CAN go after your family's assets to pay your debts, even if you haven't lived under your parents' roof in years. It gets nasty.

i agree with ChrisT533