Social networking Internet sites present their users with a vast array of personal and business opportunities, but these opportunities are accompanied by new risks.

As of September, the number of Internet users topped 2 billion and the explosion over the last 20 years has revolutionized communications with the use of social networking sites and blogs.

In fact, Internet users now spend a majority of their time on social networking sites. As of last year, Facebook passed Google as the most visited site on the Internet.

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