This week, security firm Sophos tested Australian Facebook users to see how many people would add an unknown to their friends list. The tests were a repeat of earlier testing in 2007, where they found 43% of people blindly accepted a friend request from a made-up account belonging to a plastic frog.
The 2009 tests showed that we still aren’t being careful on Social Networks: approximately 46% of people blindly accepted friend requests from people they didn’t know.
So why is this a problem? Because you have a lot of personal information on your Facebook profile—by friending people you don’t know you may be setting yourself up for Identity Theft.
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Remember The Milk are awesome.
I’ve been using Remember The Milk for almost a year now and I’ve found it an invaluable tool for staying on top of all my… stuff. From my half-arsed GTD lists, to information about family gatherings, birthdays, and appointments, you name it, I have it in Remember The Milk. (more…)
On September 30, Google sent out 100,000 invites to their new Google Wave service. The service—something of a mix between a wiki, Instant Messaging, email, and a threaded forum—aims to revolutionise the way people talk and collaborate online. I won’t write too much about what Wave is: there are plenty of guides out there for that, instead I’d like to focus on my thoughts on the platform.
Google Wave is chaotic. Everyone’s new to it all at once, which means everyone’s trying out all the features, bots, and widgets all at once. This means there’s certainly a lot going on and it can be very exciting, but it’s very difficult to keep track of and it’s entirely too easy to break things. (more…)
