It's easy to lie about who you are on social virtual networks. Whether it's a small omission on a profile or something more nefarious, there is no question that people are generally free to create whatever identity they want online. That freedom occasionally leads to extreme cases of complete identity manipulaltion.
There are many serial predators online with fake identities waiting to victimize you. It's up to you to do the digging to know who is on the other end of the screen. Are they the real thing or something else? How can you trust that they are who they say they are? Do you take the same precautions on the Web that you tell your children to take?
Next post we will talk about what you can do to protect yourself.
