Monday, June 13, 2011

Be careful of who you friend on Facebook

Are you also exposing your private parts to strangers on Facebook? is an interesting post about the risk of saying yes to friend requests from strangers.  This seems to be a real problem for rich and famous people on Facebook:

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Think it’s only old men in trench coats and — ahem — congressmen who like to share intimate moments with attractive strangers?


Based on my own Facebook experience, I’ve seen at least 100 influential tech, media and politics folks — men and some women — accept friend requests from attractive women they don’t know. For as long as three years, these supposedly savvy folks have been having personal conversations and sharing photos online in front of strangers that few (if any) of them know personally. And they are, inadvertently, sharing lots of their friends’ private data with these strangers.


These people are in the tech, media and political digital elite. They should know better, right? They include professors at Harvard, Columbia, NYU, CEOs and execs at Internet companies, e-consulting firms, ad networks, and PR companies. They include senior journalists and editors at places like the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the New Yorker. Details below.
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Hat tip: Transterrestrial Musings

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