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41% of Facebook Users Willing To Divulge Personal Info

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday March 13, 2011 @02:38PM from the do-you-need-my-social-security-number? dept.

plastick writes "In an experiment, 41% of Facebook users were willing to divulge highly personal information to a complete stranger. This according to IT security firm Sophos, which invited 200 randomly selected Facebookers to befriend a bogus Facebook user named 'Freddi Staur' (an anagram of 'ID Fraudster'). Of those queried, 87 responded to the invitation, among them 82 people whose profiles included personal information such as their email address, date of birth, address or phone number."

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The point of Facebook by LongearedBat · 2011-03-13 15:03 · Score: 3, Interesting

Isn't that the whole point of Facebook? ...to divulge personal information to all one's friends, and allowing strangers to also see it in case they happen to be long lost friends.