Anonymous

Cambridge

Service Desk Manager

Having never been on the receiving line of phishing emails in the past I was intrigued to find that within a week to me succumbing to pleas from friends and subscribing to Facebook I started to be inundated with them.

While I consider them to be a minor annoyance because they are targeting me in areas where I am not at all vulnerable, I do find it interesting that after 10 years of owning the same Hotmail address, and being admittedly quite lax about giving it out on websites in the past, suddenly it is getting flooded.

How is it that joining websites such as LinkedIn, B3ta, and even Friends Reunited never resulted in the same impact on my junk mail?

It does raise the question, what makes Facebook information so vulnerable in comparison to these other sites, some of which I consider early precursors of the social networking sites and equally as popular.