Personal websites have existed for as long as the Internet. We use them for a variety of purposes; to promote ourselves, our businesses or our hobbies.

When creating a personal website it is wise to insure that no information about you, apart from perhaps your name, is easy to grab. Even linking a name to an email address can allow someone to place you on a spam list that can pass through most spam filters.

For the most part the same rules that apply to social networks also apply to personal websites, except that personal websites have no privacy settings; remember whatever you post on your webpage can be seen by ANYONE.

When putting information online, you have to remember that your information can be copied and stored somewhere else, on someone else's computer or a web crawling Google server for a long time. The same goes for the photos and other pieces of media like videos, music and artwork that you put up there.

Your actions and the information you put up can not only be taken and stored but could be distributed or used under someone else's name for a very different purpose.