Ever since the release of YouTube.com in 2005, it has turned out to be one the most popular websites on the internet with over 100 million hits per day. People are striding in flocks to the web to watch youtube videos.

Uploading a video to YouTube is very simple. All you need to do is have a YouTube account and a formatted form of your video that complies with YouTube specifications and you are ready to go! Since, YouTube is a concern of Google, Google/GMail account holders has the privilege of using their email id on YouTube in order to login, without having to create a new account for YouTube.

There are a lot of benefits of creating your own YouTube Videos. For instance, through YouTube.com, you can make your videos available online and invite your friends, family, and millions around the globe to watch it. Presently, YouTube allows members to upload files less than 1 GB in size. Everyone who has joined yutube is given their personal web space or .channel. in YouTube.com terms. It is a centralized site where other users can see your public yotube videos, favorites, bulletins, comments, subscribers and video logs.

Once you are an active member of YouTube.com, you become a part of the YouTube Web Community. Here you can interact with other members by watching their you toube videos and posting comments and ratings. Similarly you can mingle with people who have watched your u tube video, receive comments for your video and answer their questions, if any. Hence YouTube.com acts as an exceptional social networking site.

Craigslist is a big online community, and one of the most visited classified websites in the World Wide Web with over 4 million visitors every month. Daily, people in hoards visit craigs list pages looking for new jobs, services, searching for real estate, products, marketing, and even friendship or to discuss on topics of common interests in forums. But all people who want selling on craigslist are not the same, and there could be unscrupulous souls on the prowl waiting for a chance to dupe some unassuming person(s) they meet online. Most of the people visiting Craigs list may be quite straight forwards and without any dubious intentions. But, as in every online community in the internet, there could be some people who always want to create trouble for others, and Craigslist makes no difference to them.

In fact, that is a chink in the armor of Craigslist security that it is quite easy to hide under a false identity, and fool others into thinking that they are genuine and trustworthy. Hence, on a safer side, for the good visitors to Craigs list, it is advisable to keep their personal information private and in no circumstances voluntarily disclose it to a stranger. That is, don.t ever disclose private information such as credit card number, SSN, bank account details to a stranger you met on craigslist or in any other online community. In an online community, unless you are not entirely sure of the identity of the other person, virtually all are strangers and should treat them that way only. Few hours of chatting or friendly banter should not be considered as friendship for that is the way unscrupulous persons throw the bait to unsuspecting souls.

Apart from social security number, bank account details, or the credit card info, it is also advisable not to part with personal details such as the home address, the street name or phone number, or even one.s full name. This is because, a person.s complete name . including surname . or phone number is enough information to track down his/her whereabouts. Need to be held secret private info also include mother.s maiden name, name of the pet, car registration number, when you have graduated etc for these are regular questions asked while registering an email account or an online money transfer account, and in wrong hands, such info could lead to a lots of problems at craigslist dallas.

Finally, from the user perspective, if ever felt any doubt over the genuinity of any person whom you have met online, don.t hesitate to inform the same to the Craigs list webmasters. Craigslist have always wanted to screen people with ulterior motives, and they will always welcome any info that could lead them to stop such unscrupulous people.

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