I just had this thought recently.

I remember I avoided add friends that aren’t really friends on my Steam account so I had like 3-4 friends at max. Then I realized these 3-4 friends had some good details about my life, after all, as I said, I avoided add any person, and those are closer people to me.

Then occurred to me how easy would be for someone to get extra info about myself, add me on Steam or one of these friends, and manipulate them to get more info about me.

But then I realized, what if I had 40-50 friends? It’d be harder, my real 3-4 friends would be hidden between other 40, so it becomes hard to someone with bad intentions use social engineering to reach me.

After that I started adding dozens of random people on my online accounts.

This made me realize that sometimes, burning info about yourself is better than trying to secure them.

I think this is applicable to any platform where you connect to people in a certain way.

I know this might sound kind of paranoiac but that’s how social engineering work, and it’s not new. How many cases have we seen of internet destroying real life people?!