Never give away personal information

If you've put up your full name, e-mail address, contact numbers, date of birth or your pet’s, mother’s or partner’s real names on your network page, take them off.

Those details are enough for a fraudster to steal your identity and make a reasonable guess at the passwords protecting your bank and credit card accounts.

Use your network settings to restrict access to your pages to your closest friends. Don’t put up anything you really want to keep private and consider restricting who can post messages and see your wall – your friends might inadvertently post something that might be useful to a criminal.

-Safe social networking tips - even for Paris Hilton