Social media platforms contain a dizzying amount of personal information about us, but we have some choice on which services to use and what information to set free into that sphere.

Generally, one can use a social media service without first supplying information useful for identity theft to its faceless provider. In this arena, the service user has some idea of how much to trust a social media brand such as Facebook or Google+ with personal information, given media outcries over security breaches and the provider’s privacy policy.