Via netimperative, four in five UK internet users admit to feeling unsafe sharing their mobile phone number via social networking sites like Facebook, Bebo and MySpace:
Nearly 80% of all respondents in a recent Mobyko.com survey stated they would not publicise their own number in this manner. The findings reveal the reason behind this growing trend of cautiousness – is the innate lack of trust relating specifically to the people within an individual’s online social network.
Julian Saunders, CEO of Mobyko.com said: “We know that people freely share their mobile numbers in the physical world. But, when it comes to doing so in the virtual world different factors come into play.”
More: http://www.netimperative.com/news/2008/february/4/brits-2018lack-trust-in-digital-age2019
