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jfruhlinger writes "How easy is it to get an ordinary Facebook user to add a bot to his or her Facebook friends list? Pretty easy, it turns out: use a photo of an attractive person, auto-fill the "about" profile with likely values, and you'll find success. Researchers at the University of British Columbia used this formula and got 3,000 friend confirmations out of 8,500 requests. (You can read the gory details here.)"
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  • Who in the hell accepts a FB friend request from someone they don't know at all - I mean, no mutual connections, no communication from anywhere else, just some totally random person. Yeesh.

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