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Facebook ID Probe Shows Things Getting Worse

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the what-is-a-friend-anyway dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to Sophos, Facebook users are getting sloppier with their personal info, not better. Revisiting a 2007 survey in which a plastic frog got 87 hits out of 200 friend requests, this time a rubber duck and a cat got 87 out of 200 friend requests, plus a bonus 8 friends who decided to trust them anyway. The research also suggests that older Facebook users are sloppier than the young, being keener to build their list of friends. (The older users had more than 4x the friends each, on average, than the young.)"

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  1. Useless results by kdcttg · · Score: 1, Troll

    This proves nothing of any use, since the first probe was done in the UK, and the more recent one in Australia.

  2. once again the real issue is being overlooked by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why doesn't facebook offer https to sign in with? Why do we sign in over a insecure web connection?
    Everyone is worried about the "privacy" and the most blatant privacy guard is not even implemented.
    all smoke and mirrors to cover the real issues..
    Facebook sucks and I do not understand why they get such great raves..
    Sure I can talk to someone in norway big deal..
    My friends don't give a shit what type of toilet paper I wiped with and I don't care what they wiped with.
    really it seems like another form of attention whoreism to me

    ps: my captcha was construe how ironic..