• Digital Spy , Thursday, June 21, 2012 12:30 PM

Research by mobile phone experts Recombu revealed a "worrying" trend of people opening up their lives to strangers online. According to the survey of 2,000 people conducted in February, 2012 by OnePoll, 75% of Brits have accepted a friend request from someone they don't know on Facebook. Some 82% of Facebook users were found to speak to 25 or fewer of their Facebook friends on a regular basis. The global average for the number of Facebook friends is 190, but the average 22-year-old has closer to 1,000 online friends, according to official data from Facebook. Britain was also revealed to be a nation of "friend cullers", with 71% of respondents admitting to regular culls of their online friends, including almost one in five (18%) deleting 'friends' every month.

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