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The terrors of Twittering: growing up in an unexploded data minefield
Party antics and extreme behaviour posted for fun now on Facebook and other social networking sites are set to become ghosts that haunt individuals when they try to get credit, homes or jobs as adults.
That's because lenders, employers and landlords are increasingly using complex data mining tools to capture all the publically posted data we supply to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and any other social media network or blog to build data-rich profiles of our privates lives, say internet privacy experts.