Be careful, Possible Is Your Friend On Facebook Bot

Some researchers from the University of British Columbia recently conducted a study of the behavior of the owners is on Facebook. From these studies, they say that the possibility of the owner of the account to be deceived by a bot program is quite high.

In his research, the scientists use a program calledsocialbots, a program that can behave like people who are online. Furthermore, using the software the researchers made no fewer than 102 accounts, 49 male and 53 female. Then the zombie accounts they operate for eight weeks.

During this period, they send more than 8500 random friend requests. The result, more than 3000 people received the request. Furthermore, these zombie accounts can obtain personal information from 3000 Facebook account.

But apparently this phenomenon does not stop there. 3000 owners have a facebook account the total network of more than 1 million people friends. Of course, the bot software can collect personal data from 1 million people, with a record of the owners of those accounts provide access to the ‘friends of friends’.

Overall, this study obtained personal data from the 35 percent that comes from the network directly. In addition, there are also 24 percent more data coming from the secondary network.

So what are the implications? Maybe you will ask about it. In addition to collecting personal data, this bot can also be used to manipulate public opinion on a large scale, and spread a propaganda. So it seems you should be quite careful when accepting friend requests on Facebook.