We Need A "Stranger Danger!" Video For Facebook

Identity thieves are the creepy-man-in-the-van-with-tinted-windows of the Internet and Facebook is their candy. Stranger danger, kids. Stranger danger.

Remember "Stranger Danger!", the PSA from when we were kids about talking to strangers? The one that taught us to never get in a car with a stranger or tell them any personal information about ourselves, even if they threatened to kill our dog? Well, just in case you don't remember this acting masterpiece, here it is in all its glory.

Pretty great, right? Well, social media has spit in the face of the message that STRANGER DANGER tried to instill in our young, impressionable minds. Most of us share our birthday, address, phone number, family members, vacation plans and any other personal information that Facebook will take from us, without any concern as to who might be seeing it. Most of us don't even know what our privacy settings are. And identity thieves eat all of that information up. Identity thieves are the creepy-man-in-the-van-with-tinted-windows of the Internet and Facebook is their candy. So how bad is it? This graphic does a pretty good job explaining.