Produced by The Risk Management Group 2012
Sanity Check Number Three:
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Have you ever accepted a friend request
from a stranger just because you liked their
picture?
The average Facebook user has 140
Facebook friends and in one survey, 95%
of users admitted having accepted friend
requests from total strangers.
Often, a friend request is accepted
because the person making it appears
attractive to the user, or because they are
already a ‘friend of an online friend’.
Many of us fail to check before accepting
such requests, to establish whether the
friend who appears to link us would
actually recommend this new person, or
whether they even know them.
C
is for…
C
hecking
Copyright Mark Johnson & Corinne Blandin, 2012
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