[header] How to avoid social networking scams [title] Regulate your privacy settings. [step] Most social networks, such as facebook, twitter, and instagram, allow you to control who sees your information, photos and posts. To help stay safe, try to limit the amount of people who can see your information to as few as necessary. 
[substeps] Think about who will be seeing the information you post. If your privacy settings are not controlled, you will be giving information about yourself out to anyone with access to the internet.