In this day and age, the Internet is used to do just about everything. Some people like to pay their bills online, whereas other people do their Christmas shopping online. More and more people are using the Internet to get and take care of car loans and credit card applications, and so the amount of personal information that is being inputted into cyberspace is out of this world. There are people out there who don’t care, and then there are those who do. Some people use the Internet for every bit of shopping and business, whereas others refuse to fill out even a single online form for fear of someone intercepting that information. There has to be some middle ground, and that is learning how to protect oneself from identity theft and surviving in the day and age of ever advancing technology.