TechCrunch has an interesting article that claims Facebook drives 44% of social networking. This is very interesting to me in the sense that a lot has recently been chronicled about how hackers and spammers are targeting social networks more, for a couple of reasons – recent new computer users are introduced to social networks as a method of keeping interest in computing. Some even purchase computers just to social network and keep up with peer conversations. Those newer users are prime targets. Another reason is that all the user profiles are there for exploitation without a phisher, hacker, or spammer having to gather information.

This article points this out further by referencing how quick spammers took onto Google’s Buzz. However, one must also point to the fact that Buzz was wide open from it’s inception. Here is the original alert that came from Websense.