10 tips for social networking safety

I haven't read my RSS feeds from my Outlook Inbox for a while.... I came across this article from Microsoft's website (http://www.microsoft.com/protect/yourself/phishing/socialnet.mspx)about how to stay safe on social networking sites, including:

• Do not trust that the author is actually who they say they are
• Do not automatically scan your address book to protect you and your friends
• Do not click on your page via email - go via bookmarked site, or directly type into the address bar (be careful of phishing in emails)
• Be careful about who you add as a friend on Facebook (We talked about this in class) and they have the term "social engineering" when fraudulent people try to access information from you

I thought this was really relevant and great that Microsoft has addressed these issues already last November 2008.