Are Twitter And Facebook A Serious Threat To Your Privacy? [INFOGRAPHIC]

In and of itself, posting open messages to public networks does appear to fly in the very face of self-protection and personal security. After all, if you don’t want people to know something, why on earth would you write about it on the internet?

So, perhaps a more important question is: if you choose to be active on platforms such as Twitter and Facebook, can you realistically expect, or even demand privacy?

Recently I was watching an old episode of CSI, and, in the course of the investigation, some members of the team had tracked down the Twitter profile of the victim – a young, female college student – to look for clues.