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Teens get hip to exercising caution when online
4/19/2007 | 
Coverage
Ellen Lee, San Francisco Chronicle, C1
'" When Autumn Smith joined social-networking site MySpace a few years ago, she filled her online profile with all sorts of details: her hometown, the name of her high school, her year in school, her friends, her job, her hobbies, even the car she drives.
But about a year ago, as she began learning more about MySpace and the risk of revealing too much online, she changed her page. She made the site private so that only her approved friends could see it. She used her middle name instead of her first name. She deleted personal details and photos that could make it easy for a stranger to figure out who she was and where she lived. And she encouraged her friends to do the same.
"When I first got MySpace, I didn't think about it. It was so new that no one really knew about it," said the 17-year-old student at Hillsdale High School in San Mateo. "I used to have everything in it about me. That's something I've changed."
Teenagers are becoming more savvy about how they use MySpace and Facebook, the popular social-networking sites where teens hang out and express themselves. A survey released Wednesday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that two-thirds of teenagers who use social-networking sites keep their profiles private, and nearly half include false information. "
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