[Cialug] CIALUG Google+ Circle

[Josh More]

People scan new social media networks and try to do "connection spam" so
they can use those connections later.  The first phase is to grab a lot of
early adopters who are largely just interested in playing with the new
platform. They then leverage the large connection count to seem more
important to later targets. They may be interested in spamming you,
collecting (and, optionally, selling) your information or infecting you
with malware.

As an example, I created an obviously fake account on Facebook for
Elizabeth Bennet (even used the photo from the BBC Pride & Prejudice movie)
and I already have over 10 followers.

-Josh

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:
> > > I'm sure that there must be more of us on Google+:
>
> Also, I'm having trouble understanding the process by which so many people
> come to put me in their circles. People from places I've never been. People
> I don't know.  50-some so far.
>
> I'm no Chris Pirillo. My posts don't have legs like that. Why are they
> following me?
>
> Granted, some of them are surely legitimate extensions of my social
> circles. But not all of them. Weird.
>
> --
> Todd
>
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