The Wall Street Journal made a discovery on Thursday where it found that all the promises that have been forwarded by the social networking sites regarding an assurance of offering high quality privacy, may be going down the drain, since a lot of advertisers are being provided with your information by these social networking sites.

A report by the Wall Street Journal demonstrates that a number of social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Digg, might be sharing users’ confidential information with a lot advertisers.

This is widespread practice all over the internet, and, in the majority of cases, is no issue-advertisers obtain information on the final page that is viewed, which cannot be traced back to the consumer.

In the case of social networking sites, the personal information on the final page viewed frequently reveals user names or profile identification numbers that may possibly be used to search for the persons.

It depends upon what a user has made public, advertisers can probably see anything, from the place you belong to your real name.

The actual trouble is that the social networking sites have the capability of obscuring your names and profile identification from advertisers but they do not seem to do so.