Sunday 30 January 2011

Spammers take advantage of Facebook narcissism

Regular readers will know that we are none too keen on the social networks here. Yet another interesting article on ZDNet by Jennifer Leggio starts off by saying, "Narcissism fuels 'friend collecting,' which is the practice of either aggressively pursuing connections with friends of friends one barely knows, or indiscriminately accepting friend requests from unknown people" and goes on to warn of the dangers of doing so, and offers a few simple ways of avoiding the problem. Please read the whole article here and help make the Internet safer.

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