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Corey Greenburg:
And this is all well and good except that it opens kids up to a lot of on-line predators because that segment of society that likes to prey upon kids has found that it's pretty easy pickings.

Corey Greenburg of Techspurt.com and the Tech Editor for The Today Show, says what you and your kids do on these sites can come back to haunt you.

The thing you never want to do is you never want to reveal traceable personal information. You don't want to put your telephone number, you don't want to put your email address - especially financial information like Paypal information. Kids have an enhanced sense of privacy when they're on these sites - they think they're only talking to one person and it's their friend. What they also don't realize is that any time they're conversing with somebody on one of these sites, there are a thousand people listening in on the conversation. So you need to make your kids aware that they should never share this kind of information.

Understand, says Corey, that nothing is private on the Internet.

Not only does Myspace.com reserve the right to monitor you but there are predators who are on-line who are able to monitor what you're doing, even in private chat sessions without you knowing it. And this happens every minute of every day. Even if I fire up a little Google talk chat with my friend, Google saves every transcript of that chat. And there are ways for on-line predators to get hold of those chats, so you need to be aware of this.

You can link to Corey's website from ours: somethingyoushouldknow.net - I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.