Identity Theft on Facebook

Today I was browsing through the different security newsletters that I read, and this post seemed to be the most relevant and caught my interest. Humans as a whole are very trusting. This little experiment backs that up. It was run 2 years ago and people added friends to their facebook accounts whom they did not know in quite impressive numbers. Well, after 2 years you think people would understand that it is not a good idea to do that. Well, guess what? They still are not catching on to the risks:

46% of Facebook Users Are Happy To Reveal All Their Information To Complete Strangers