Spooky New Site For Facebook Users

There’s a hot new site making the rounds this Halloween season that mines your Facebook account and inserts your photo and other information into a creepy video - playing right into our biggest fears about privacy and the information we share online.

The mysterious site is called Take This Lollipop and it works like so: after you give the site permission to connect to your Facebook account, it begins playing a video featuring a sweaty, twitchy man, sitting in a darkened room, using a computer to nose around Facebook. But he’s not browsing through just any random page – he’s looking at your account and getting increasingly agitated by what he’s seeing.

In the first 24 hours of the site being open to the public, more than 300,000 people have given it access to their Facebook accounts. And I'm sure with Halloween rapidly approaching, that number has already increased exponentially. So check it out!