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1. Impersonation. Does the social networking account (e.g., Twitter Account) belong to the actual person or company it is representing? For example, if you look at the Twitter account @johnsileo, you will see that the name is used to send business to a gentleman who is also an identity theft speaker. The actual account is @john_sileo. Whether this is considered social networking squatting or social networking identity theft,  it’s impersonation.

2. Ownership. Who owns the data on the social networking sites’ servers? Do you own what you post on Facebook, what you email through Google Mail or the financials you backup off-site on someone else’s servers? The fact that you don’t know should trouble you as much as it does me. People could be extracting information about you posted on the internet, and using for it for bad intentions.