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1. Online profiles often include photographs, group associations, and personal preferences, this information can sometimes be embarrassing.

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2. Many sites, like Facebook, allow users to choose their own privacy settings users can limit how much information they want to share and who has access to their personal data.

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3. Some people take steps to protect their privacy, they actively monitor their information and protect their online reputations.

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4. Most people assume that younger social networkers are freer with their personal information, young people, however, are more likely than older people to limit what they share online.

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5. In a recent survey, 44 percent of Internet users ages eighteen to twenty-nine reported limiting the information available about themselves online only 25 percent of users ages fifty to sixty-four reported doing so.

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6. Some people argue that older users are simply less knowledgeable about how to protect themselves, younger users are more likely to know how to adjust settings and remove unwanted information.

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7. On the other hand, many observers note that security policies at sites like Facebook change frequently even young people struggle to keep up with complicated and confusing privacy controls.

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8. The survey also reported that younger people are generally less trusting of social networking sites more than a quarter of them said they “never” trust such sites.

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9. The truth is that younger users spend much more time on social networking sites than older users do, twenty-somethings simply have more information online to protect and more reason to be concerned.

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10. Fortunately, few of the people surveyed reported problems with private information being released, taking precautions, as the younger users do, still seems wise.

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