People are so willing to become friends with strangers on Facebook – they’ll even link up with a toy rubber duck! Learn more about the risks, and how to protect against them.
Do you blindly accept friend requests on Facebook? And if you do, do you have a limited profile set up for those people you don’t know that limits the personal information they can see? Let’s hear it in the comments. [Sophos via CNET]
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Hicham
December 9, 2009
Thanks for sharing this, timethief. Facebook is good for connecting with people who I know but I personally avoid sharing many stuff over it.
timethief
December 10, 2009
Facebook has ongoing privacy issues that are a real put-off. They are complicated by the fact that people are so naive and trusting of their so-called freinds, when it comes to giving out identifiable information.