According to Facebook Statistics, there are more than 800 millions active users. Which means there are at least 800 millions brains that may put you in deep shit. To now, marketing person used to set up a profile and set a pretty girl as profile picture. Yes, most of us will know the picture might download from somewhere from the Internet. Google Image perhaps?
1. Beware friend requests from unknown hotties who have thousands of friends in list
This person could be someone in your social circle that you haven’t met yet. But it might also be a spammer or spambot trying to infiltrate your circle of friends, steal information from you, and perhaps even download your Facebook profile for later creepy social engineering projects. University researchers created 102 “hot social bots” — fake, automated Facebook accounts (with attractive profile photos) — and sent them out into the Facebook ecosystem to start friending people. They were able to friend thousands, and steal 250 GB worth of information, such as email addresses and phone numbers. Their ability to friend strangers increased as they infiltrated a given circle of friends. (“Oh, we have three friends in common, and you’re smoking hot? Sure, I’ll accept that friend request, random stranger.”) Facebook’s security system flagged just 20 of the bots as fake accounts. While it would suck to have your email and phone number handed over to (even more) spammers, a worse case scenario is that someone who friended you would download your account and use it to impersonate you and smear your reputation.
2. Beware Google's Spider
GoogleBot is now indexing comments, our privacy are getting lesser and lesser. Read at http://bit.ly/vB88sm
source: Forbes
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