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- anderzole, on 01/16/2008, -1/+70some facebook pages look eerily similar to those atrocious myspace pages. Thankfully facebook doesn't have auto-playing songs, but sifting through a page with 32 applications is annoying, and who really needs 4 different kinds of walls!
- kiiwii, on 01/16/2008, -1/+58I hate Facebook Apps... profiles used to look so clean, now there's super walls, pets, christmas trees, all sorts of random crap.
- sovereign3, on 01/16/2008, -1/+38You should find smarter friends...
- Otto, on 01/16/2008, -1/+27I read her post, but I'm confused. Did she get some kind of malware that posted that spam to all her friends? How did the spamming actually occur?
- ohjebus, on 01/16/2008, -1/+25Oh no, The only reason i started a facebook account is to get away from the myspace spam! Now where will i be able to play scrabble
in peace. - cusoman, on 01/16/2008, -1/+22"Official"? "Becoming" and "Trend".
Someone's confused. - Klarth, on 01/16/2008, -0/+19I logged in this morning to find a friend had posted the same adspam about a ringtone site on the wall of every single person I knew. What's worse is that apparently nobody I know has the brains to see through that *****. The only responses he received were "sweet thanx ive been looking 4 new ringtones" and "great! I'll check it out later!".
- amgamer23, on 01/16/2008, -1/+18Four different walls, but then they get rid of the one real wall you DON'T need an app to post on.
- gharding, on 01/16/2008, -1/+18So uh, you guys want some free ringtones? I got the hookup, yo.
- Typhoon2009, on 01/16/2008, -2/+19F10 for a free AWP.
- Ravatar, on 01/16/2008, -1/+17They're actually working on a new feature that shows just their basic profile, then an "extended profile" that shows all of their ***** apps and *****.
- Redemption289, on 01/16/2008, -6/+22Yep! It happened to one person. That makes it official alright. *rolls eyes*
- kiiwii, on 01/16/2008, -1/+17I've gotten friend invites from random people I don't know, people who have only like 10 friends in very disjoint networks. Probably people who just blindly click "accept" to get more friends.
It's gotta be some sort of spam or spying type thing. - vagrantwade, on 01/16/2008, -0/+13Buried because if you read the article you will see her account did the spamming.
The only lesson you learn from this is, stop being ignorant and don't fall for spoof login phish sites. Keep your password to yourself. - petebot, on 01/16/2008, -1/+13Hey, I'm new to facebook. They won't let me post all of my pics! Check out this page--it's gott ALL of my pics and my webcam too!!!! LUV ya!!!!
- qwertylicious, on 01/16/2008, -0/+11In the real world. You just keep away from your mail box. And your phone. And the internet.
- HPCELarry, on 01/16/2008, -2/+10No problems here. Just be a smart user. Don't sign up for random crap or install every application.
- RedSaber, on 01/16/2008, -3/+10Attention whores are killing Digg... That's what Official.
- sovereign3, on 01/16/2008, -1/+6I agree. My FB page hasn't been spammed yet. Maybe it's just an isolated incident?
- MacEnvy, on 01/16/2008, -1/+6It was announced today that Scrabulous is getting sued by Hasbro/Mattel for IP infringement. I wouldn't count on it being around much longer.
- earliodookie, on 01/16/2008, -0/+5i buried it as inaccurate because using the funwall app as an example is dumb.
- lonedust, on 01/16/2008, -0/+5Yeah, I clicked the link hoping to see some info on this "new trend of spamming" on facebook but all I read was someone's post on emotional response of being a victim of a mysterious spamming force.
- T8erT0T, on 01/16/2008, -0/+4Facebook is becoming more like myspace as the days go on. It will only be a few more weeks until I have people telling me about free xbox 360s and zombie requests.
Seriously, these apps were a Pandora's box that FB should have never messed with. - inactive, on 01/16/2008, -1/+5Oh boo hoo. Add people you know to your list, not random people you don't know.
No wonder it happened. - aaabatteries, on 01/16/2008, -1/+5smart users are definitely lacking in online social networks. =P
- cotaskmemalloc, on 01/16/2008, -0/+3Wow, is it really 'official'? Lame article, lame title, dugg down.
- Cloned, on 01/16/2008, -0/+3I agree, but I signed up for Facebook because of college. It's hard to hang out with your old friends when they're three states away.
- slunktoday, on 01/16/2008, -4/+7Not content with spamming facebook, she continued the trend by blog spamming digg. Thanks carrie. Don't install stupid apps and actually read what you're doing next time. Burried.
- inactive, on 01/16/2008, -0/+3if you keep adding stupid applications that's what happens... I have none and this has never happened to me
- UoMDeacon, on 01/16/2008, -2/+5Yeah, she probably installed some type of crappy Facebook App that she gave access to post messages for her. I remember this topic actually popped up a while ago on Digg about "malicious" FB apps that would do that for you. Apparently some people (like Carrie) didn't get the message.
- MiDri, on 01/16/2008, -0/+3As a facebook app developer I can confirm this, you can't send messages as a user even if they install your app -- you do however have a host of information you can pull on them and if they are stupid enough to use something like their favorite bands name as their password it would not be hard to automate.
- daridave, on 01/16/2008, -0/+3Facebook is officially lame, anyway. It's been so for weeks/months now. I've turned all my privacy settings up, no more apps, I only keep in touch with my old school friends, but otherwise it sucks ass now. It's worth 1 bucks, not billions, in my opinion.
- willclarke, on 01/16/2008, -2/+5"Facebook" isn't spamming anyone, YOU'RE spamming people by being stupid enough to fall for a phishing scam and giving out your username and password. Idiot.
- gharding, on 01/16/2008, -1/+4What? Something can't become an official trend!?
- mwalker05, on 01/16/2008, -1/+4she was only a victim of her own stupidity in giving away her login information to a phishing site. burried as inaccurate since this tactic works with any web service requiring a logon.
- mikeazorin, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2I think there's definitely some good uses for apps. Who doesn't want to compete for high scores in Frogger or share study sheets for finals? But there are some apps out there that are absolute trash and some people insist on adding all of them to their profiles. There should be a limit to how many applications you can put on your profile, to save people from themselves.
- MeatBiProduct, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2I play on IveGotScrabs.com
- stonewaljacksn, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2more beerwhores please.
- Mowie666, on 01/16/2008, -1/+3Wow what a bad posting. Doesn't explain how the spam actually came from her, an app, someone hack her account, etc... Thumbs way down. And people commenting on the site are trying to be so cool to show they're her friend they won't discuss it either.
- stonewaljacksn, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2amen to that.
- orangetiki, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2Nothing will EVER beat actually being with your friends. And there are no ads either. Well unless your wearing a logo shirt, but that's acceptable in some circles.
- therealkdog, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2Welcome to awhile ago.
- SACubeMonkey, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2After the first couple times this happened to me I decided it was some form of data mining and stopped accepting anyone I didn't know.
- blackmage439, on 01/16/2008, -1/+3Agreed. I don't care if this was her fault or not. Facebook used to be clean, efficient, and at least had an aura of safety and comradery (from the school-only networks). Now, it's just a bloated whore of spam and filth. I don't give a ***** if UR NINJA BEET MI PIRATE!!1!!1!111!! or if Chuck Norris eats baby bone marrow for the protein. I've been putting it off for awhile now, but this is the final straw. ***** you Spambook, and ***** you Myslut. Consider my accounts happily deleted, and my life happily liberated.
- Bruno43, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2I think the point was that one of their friends added a new hip funwall or something to that extent which then posted on everyones wall about the ringtones.
- MacEnvy, on 01/16/2008, -2/+4You passed up a prime opportunity to use an interrobang in that comment.
- Redemption289, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2Fine. Lets cut a deal. We'll call it official when NIST has to start regulating it. Of course, the day that NIST starts regulating facebook "spam" is the day I stop paying taxes...
- CypherXero, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2The Facebook Administration are well aware of the spam issue, but are unwilling to do anything about it. I wrote an article over a year ago about this issue, and they laughed me off, and terminated my account. Here's my document for those that are interested:
http://packetstormsecurity.org/0705-advisories/fac ... - testastretta, on 01/16/2008, -1/+3Facebook *is* spam, i.e. MySpace 2.0
- techyteen, on 01/17/2008, -0/+2I'm glad I haven't had a problem yet. It's too bad for facebook, they have reached their peak. It's all downhill from here.
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