Study: Many Facebook users are careless
After conducting an experiment, a team of researchers at the University of British Columbia in Canada has concluded that a fifth of all Facebook users are careless when accepting friend requests and automatically disclose their private information in the process. The researchers used 102 virtual Facebook profiles to harvest gigabytes worth of user data. To collect the data, they used “social bots” to send friend requests to more than 5,000 randomly selected users.
