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Published: Mar 17, 2008 - 06:35 am
Story Found By: annie7 1427 Days ago
Category: Social Media
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Published: Mar 17, 2008 - 06:35 am
Story Found By: annie7 1427 Days ago
Category: Social Media
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Excellent article. Sites that get red-hot super fast all seem to have a short life cycle. They get superheated and then the wrong element moves in. The faster they get hot and the bigger they are, the faster they seem to get taken over by the wrong elements. In a way, there’s a benefit to being successful yet not TOO successful.
It’s been in the works for awhile(not by me).A lot of the people I’ve heard of doing it were actually just fed up with the restriction of facebook’s PPC program.
FaceBook has always been as easy to game as MySpace, it’s just that MySpaceBetweenMyEars users are coming across to FB and falling for the same tricks.Create a FaceBook account with a generic female nameUpload a photo of a really hot "girl next door" to your profileUse RapLeaf to cycle through your mailing/spam lists and grab accounts with FB profilesSend a Friend Request saying "It was great meeting you briefly the other week"Sit back and watch your friends list growSend a friend request to their friends saying "I’m also a friend of X and I think we met briefly"Post comments to the wall of your new found friendsThe interesting part is data collection using innocent looking FB apps :)
I find Facebook + all its apps too complex from a usability viewpoint so it’s not surprising that spammers find it easy to infiltrate themselves. The simplicity of Twitter is much to be preferred.
I blame all the people who friended everyone that asked.. If it hadn’t become such a popularity contest a lot of this wouldn’t happen because friends don’t do these things to friends..
@Jill: unfriending the spammers should definitely help...
You spammer evilgreenmonkey - I had the exact same idea (girl next door looking photo and everything) LOL. I dugg this post.Edit: Oh my christ the diggers are lapping it up.
I actually know all my friends... so far I haven’t been spammed by any of them but if I was, I’d know who to smack around. ;)
Facebook spam shouldn’t really be a problem if you’re only adding genuine friends. Having to scroll through several feet of shitty applications to actually find someone’s wall in the first place is the real problem.
Isn’t this the ultimate fate of every social networking site that doesn’t make it a huge PITA to send friend requests? Didn’t we see the same thing with Orkut? LinkedIn doesn’t attract nearly as much noise, but OTOH, I gave up trying to build out that network.
Well, this stinks. Nothing is ever safe anymore. Once a site grows and get lots of traffic, in come the parasites. I agree that you should only friend people you know of.
This isn’t anything new. I’ve been getting other types of spam like someone mentioned above on Facebook for a while now. Wrote about it last month http://www.ppclab.com/2008/02/either-im-incredibly-sexy-or-facebook-has-a-problem/
Love the title on this submission! don’t really know why, but it cracked me up...
Facebook is too easy to spam, especially being able to mass email everyone in your hotmail, yahoo and gmail accounts.
@DanThiesLinkedIn doesn’t attract nearly as much noise, but OTOH, I gave up trying to build out that network.can’t agree more :)
This is bad! I’m an active Facebook member and what I want is just clean fun.