There are people out there right now putting a truly astounding amount of information on their wholly-public Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn profiles. My main

There are people out there right now putting a truly astounding amount of information on their wholly-public Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn profiles. My main message for people is to resist the social temptation to share every detail of your family's life on social media, in the long run it's better for your privacy, your family's privacy, your security, and reduces opportunities for malicious data mining. It's sufficient to build an entire identity theft kit if you're a malicious actor wanting to impersonate somebody. Somebody would combine whatever is available from social media with things like linkedin profiles, CVs, github projects, other github-like-project profiles, and linkedin-type business networking site data. Or at least a good enough to pass cursory inspection/examination identity theft kit to impersonate somebody with a close-enough email address, or a throwaway custom domain name registered for the purpose. I would highly recommend anyone that does keep an account somewhere like Facebook to stop posting photos of your house, family members and to set all of your 'privacy' settings to whatever is the friends-only/maximum setting. Try looking at your own profile from a different browser with no cookies in a burner account or incognito mode and see if any of your personal life is visible.