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Ashley Hayes Reporting Myspace.com is ranked as one of the most popular websites in the world.
It's one of many networking sites where people create pages about themselves. Many use it as a form of e-mail to talk among friends, but it's also giving easy access into their lives to millions of strangers, even criminals.
There are several different sites where you can create and personalize your own page. You need a college e-mail to have access to Facebook, but it's difficult to know how secure restrictions are for a lot of sites.
Like My Space, there aren't many to begin with. Here's what we found.
If you don't know much about Ryan Hanson you can find it here. For instance, her favorite song is "Face down" by the Red Jumpsuit. As you listen to Hanson's music, you'll find she has 1,115 friends, loves designer jeans and her favorite animal is an elephant.
And you can learn a lot more without ever meeting Hanson in person.
It's called My Space, and if you're on it, it's likely you're checking it all the time.
Ryan Hanson/Myspace.com user: "All my friends have it. That's how I talk to them. I don't even have an email anymore. I just use Myspace."
Users share pictures, where they live, how tall they are, if they are recently single.
But what people are comfortable disclosing, posting about themselves in the privacy of their computer rooms can be seen by thousands, many times upwards of 65,000, enough to fill the football stadium at BYU.
Dr. Michael Brunson, Clinical Psychologist: "You find folks are sharing very intimate and personal detailed things that actually put them at risk."
At risk for exposure to pedophiles, sex addicts, and the latest victims who have logged on to Myspace have lost their identities.
The federal government is reporting a quarter of a million identity theft cases are linked to these websites.
Francine Giani, Utah Dept of Consumer Protection: "You need very little. Frankly, a birthdate and a name and you're off to the races."
Giani says most victims' information will be stolen and used long before they ever realize it.
Francine Giani: "Clearly young people are going online. They'll be surprised by what could happen."
And it's not just teenagers. Professionals in their twenties and thirties are surfing the site during work hours. That includes men and women.
You can restrict who sees your profile, but theft investigators say it's not fool proof.
So if you're like Hanson.....
Ryan Hanson: "I'm obsessed with it."
Just know you're one of millions checking all the time.
Giani says if you have posted youself on Myspace, even if you've since removed your page, you need to check your credit reports more frequently to make sure no one is using your identity.
She also says this month the state began restricting government employees from using the site at work. It is banned in all government offices. A man was recently fired because of it.
