The Risk Management Group - The A to Z of Safe Social Media

Sanity Check Number Three:

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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.

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Copyright Mark Johnson & Corinne Blandin, 2012