Why you have to hide your full identity in Social networks?

Before the year 2007, Social networks were not that much in use, and involved as a part of our life. But the current situation is not like that. Now, we are represented as our profiles in the social networks in the virtual world called "Internet". Our daily activities up to this second, important events, photos are shared with known or unknown people because of the virtual relationships. It was not a threat to our life before the year 2009, but now. We have a new visitors. You may ask "Who are they?".

There are some people, who download private pictures from the social medias or other websites, and sold it to some websites to earn money with it. What those websites do ?. Sometime they might edit your photos and upload them in restricted websites. Sometime they might use them to do advertisements, without your knowledge. They are some many threats for your life too, because of the new unknown friendship in those social networks.

There are some people, who take the information about you from your social networks, and create new fake account with those information, and photos to do scam activities with your friends or to kill your good name. These things are happening because, you haven't closed the public door properly. You are opened more about yourself online through the social medias. what do you say "Yes" or "No" ? YES.

Your total privacy is gone. Once, you have uploaded a picture on internet, then you can't delete it. Even though those social media's provide delete buttons, we can't make sure that they are actually deleting them. But, i have recently read in some articles, that Google is providing the options to delete the information about you fully from their social media, if you don't like it. Facebook also giving the option but i can ensure that, that is not similar to the option provided by Google.

There are enough hide and seek games in social medias. You always want to be aware, about the services like app,you are using in these social medias. Most of the products are now coming with ID in social medias. Because they want to know, how many people are using their products. In one side, that is useful because we can give our feedback to them but, at the same time, because of those fan pages, our identify is spread between more people. Because of that, we might get new unknown friend requests.

All the social networks are mostly earning from the advertisements, and page suggestions. To show relevant ads or suggest suitable fan pages, they need more information about you. If you don't show your full identity then they can't do much. If they are forcing you to give the information about you then don't worry. just give fake information about you.

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What you have to do is, you have to limit you information when you are filling the registration forms or profile in those social networks. Don't upload the photos where others can see your full face. Create friend list, circles to limit the visibility of what you are sharing. Don't let others to see your contact information such as email id, phone no, address. Do some advanced privacy setting to your photo albums like restricting the unknown people to see your photo albums. Don't let the new/unknown friends to see the list of your friends. Change your account password, every 6 months. Don't let the new/unknown friends to involve in your life directly. Ask more questions from them, when they are chatting with you, and give very shot answers for their questions. Don't share your passwords. If you feel that, they are trying to involve in your life, just block them, and remove their friendship.

If you have the full identity in the social networks by only showing or sharing some information with them, then there won't be any threat to your life from those social medias.