Young people are having a harder time keeping their profile pages and email accounts secure, especially from prankster friends. And although many treat hacking or spying as a joke, nearly half who have been victims were upset by it. An Associated Press-MTV poll finds 3 in 10 teens and young adults have had people get into their Facebook, Twitter, MySpace or other Internet accounts and either impersonate or spy on them. That's nearly double the level seen in 2009. The poll found solid majorities saying they knew who was behind it: 72 percent for spying, 65 percent for hacking. Richard Lindenfelzer, 20, says it's happened to him, but it was more playful than anything else. Sometimes when he walks away and leaves his laptop logged into Facebook, a roommate seizes the opportunity to fiddle with Lindenfelzer's page, writing silly things about love interests or potty humour. "It's meant to be funny," said Lindenfelzer, a junior at Ithaca College in New York. "It's supposed to be obvious that this is something I college graduate Emily Feldhake of Pickford, Mich. The 22-year-old had used a friend's laptop and closed the browser but hadn't logged out. Her friend took some humorous jabs at her on her Facebook page. Not upset, she said: "I knew who it was. It was my friend and I was the one who stayed logged on." But sometimes the hacking can be malicious. Courtney Eisenbraun of Saint Francis, Minn., is among the 46 percent of young people left upset by a hacking experience. The 15-year-old says she was at practice for her high school dance team when she got a text from her sister checking to see if the 10th-grader was on Facebook. The teen's status had been changed to say something inappropriate about girls in showers. She says she doesn't share her password with friends but assumes it was someone in her grade because they knew who her friends were and also posted things on their Facebook pages, pretending to be her. "I was really confused about how they got my password," she said. "I felt violated." Read Full: Digital Crunch: More youth seeing their Facebook hacked: ***
