As the popularity of these social sites grows, so do the risks
of using them. Hackers, spammers, virus writers, identity
thieves, and other criminals follow the traffic. Read these tips
to help protect yourself when you use social networks. - Use
caution when you click links that you receive in messages from
your friends on your social website. Treat links in messages on
these sites as you would links in e-mail messages. - Know what
you’ve posted about yourself. A common way that hackers break
into financial or other accounts is by clicking the “Forgot your
password?” link on the account login page. To break into your
account, they search for the answers to your security questions,
such as your birthday, hometown, high school class, father’s
middle name, on your social networking site. If the site allows,
make up your own password questions, and don’t draw them from
material anyone could find with a quick search. - Don’t trust
that a message really is from whom it says it’s from. Hackers
can break into accoun