If you' re considering dipping a toe into the online world, there are a few things you should know
1 Don’t invite all your friends
Most social networks (SNs) will offer to trawl your Web-based email address books and connect you with friends. Don’t let them. Not until you’ve found out how your information is treated. And whether the network will go ahead and send invitations to all the non-members in your address book. It’s far better to fumble around and slowly find people you know, or want to, than to piss off several hundred people at one go.
(This story appears in the 08 January, 2010 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)