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Ways to Protect Your Personal Information Online

Though sharing information about yourself and physical location will help optimize your content for search engines, it is still imperative to take extra precautions to protect yourself from privacy invasion online.

Facebook Privacy
1. Limit the amount of personal information you share on your Facebook profile.
Do not include your date of birth, telephone number postal address, or main email address.  Create a separate email address for your Facebook account.  In the event that your profile gets hacked, the hacker cannot access your main email account’s address book.
2. Manage custom privacy settings 
If you wish to share personal information, change your custom settings so that only trusted friends can see it.
3. Applications
Spring clean your Facebook profile’s apps.  An application you once used months ago could now be abandoned by its developer and a prime source for hackers to access your profile.

Twitter
Do not connect location-based services to Twitter. Criminals can quickly locate and track your whereabouts learning your daily routine.
1. Make your tweets private
If you enjoy sharing your location information and personal information about your daily activities, then be sure to set your tweets to “private” – that way only people that you allow can see them.
2. Don’t tweet pictures you don’t want everyone to see.
Posting pictures on Twitter can be fun, but if Weinergate taught us anything, it’s that even pictures in Direct Messages can be seen by anyone looking at your TwitPic stream.  Tweet with caution.

YouTube

1. Do not share too much on your account profile.
YouTube allows you to share your name, age, interests and more.  Be careful as to not share too much personal information if you are using YouTube for more than just business videos.
2. Keep your personal videos private.
If you choose to post personal and professional videos on the same YouTube account or channel, then be sure to set your personal videos as private.  This can be done when editing your video.
3. Keep your activity private from strangers.
Account settings allow you to control who sends you messages, shares videos, and who can see your videos.

Search Engines
Do not search for personal information.
If you are searching for your own name, social security number, credit card number, all can be traced back to your computer.  In doing so, you are creating a digital roadmap that can lead criminals right to you putting your personal information at risk of identity theft.

Learn more on Internet privacy.