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NEW YORK (CBS 2) If you think staying off popular social networking sites, like Pinterest and MySpace, will protect your privacy, think again. A new study found your personal information is often on these sites even though youre not.

Millions of people cant imagine living without social networking, but others dont want any part of it.

I didnt want to know the people in high school when I was in high school, so I dont want them finding me now, Gregg Giglione recently told CBS 2s Chris Wragge.

A bunch of reasons, Mike Karlesky said when asked why he doesnt have a Facebook account. One, I know that I would end up getting sucked into it.

Neither Giglione nor Karlesky have accounts on the social networking giant, but their personal information, including where they live, their employment history and even what they do in their spare time is easy to find on the site, and available for all to see.

On Facebook? Huh, Im actually shocked, Giglione said.

Doesnt sit well with me, Karlesky added.

And theyre not alone. German researchers found all kinds of personal information and private details about people who werent members of Facebook all over the site.

A male or female, straight or gay and so that information is so sensitive and even if you didnt directly post that information, we can infer that about you, said NYU-Poly cyber security expert Max Pala.

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