Survey: 41% of Facebook Users Total IDiots

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Submitted by plastick on Sunday March 13, 2011 @07:54PM

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. In total:

72% of respondents divulged one or more email address
84% listed their full date of birth
87% provided details about their education or workplace
78% listed their current address or location
23% listed their current phone number
26% provided their instant-messaging screen name
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