Internet Safety Project - Public or Private Profile

Why should teenagers set their social networking profiles to private?

My opinion is that all teenagers who have a profile of any kind should have it blocked to where people can’t even see your picture. It is very important for all teenagers to set any social site network to private. There are crazy people in this world and they will do anything. Yesterday in class we were learning about how some people make an online avatar to make it look like them and then come to find out its some old man/ women. Having your profile open to the world is dangerous. What if you put your address or your phone number up on face book and someone you don’t like or know pops up at your house? It’s important for parent’s to watch how their kid is using the internet.