You Must Know This!
What is A Spam?
An electronic message is "spam" IF:
(1) the recipient's personal identity and context are irrelevant because the message is equally applicable to many other potential recipients.
(2) the recipient has not verifiably granted deliberate, explicit, and still-revocable permission for it to be sent.
(3) the transmission and reception of the message appears to the recipient to give a disproportionate benefit to the sender.
Friends, there are people who use a system and then there are others who abuse it. Prevent spam from going out from your profiles. It could be a simple message forward or it could be your profile's privacy settings. Spammers target the naive users. Just today received a message from a friend. The message is nothing different that the chain email messages that continue to go on for years. The challenge with facebook is the users range from 8 to 80 and the 500 plus million accounts. So it covers a wider range of naive users. You can prevent the spam by not honoring every singe message or link or friend request. Be selective and this will save you lots of time and headaches in the future. If you are educated about how to control the spam, please educate others in your friend circle by pointing them to the right sources of information (In case of facebook, it could be an official facebook blog or official facebook help topics).
Beware of spam links. Please don't just click links shared from Facebook, it could be spam.
There are simple ways to know if a link is a spam, here are few:
1: It's better to ask your friend who you thought sent you that link, using your own dialect first, to be sure!
Ask your friend is he or she really posted it.
2: Shortened URLs.
3: Here are some pattern of SPAM Posts I encountered in Facebook:
Tagged friends: Friend 1, friend 2 friend 3, friend 4....
SPAM Message: wοοhoо reаlly wοrkѕ. Thіѕ glitch giνеs you frеe fb crеdits. Up tо 500 yоu cаn lеarn hоw herе. k94ki.rezxc.info/
SPAM Message: wοοhoо reаlly wοrkѕ. Thіѕ glitch giνеs you frеe fb crеdits. Up tо 500 yоu cаn lеarn hоw herе. k94ki.rezxc.info/
Worse case scenario:
Once you clicked this spam links, there's no stopping it, your facebook friends could be irritated and delete you in their friend's list.
Trust me, it happened to my friend. Her friends deleted her because her account was sending links to friends without her knowing.
So, in order to stop the "inappropriate or unacceptable conduct by a small number of people" you are going to punish every one of the 400-500 million users on facebook? If I request too many friendships from people that facebook deems are people I can not possibly know, I will get blocked from sending friend requests & messages for 30 days (or more) because I am obviously a spammer? This is what has been happening to countless people (me included) thanks to your ridiculous automated brainless system to block spammers. Now everyone on facebook is being considered a potential spammer! Thanks facebook! MAJOR FAIL!
You people at facebook really need to take a personal hand in this anti-spam issue & stop hurting regular users who are doing no harm. I have just over 100 people I keep in touch with on here. I'm not here playing apps & adding 1000s of strangers just to play games. I'm not here spamming people or stealing info. I'm here to keep in touch with people I care about!
And because I requested too many people out of my " facebook circle" on facebook, I've been labelled a spammer & blocked for 30 days! Thanks but no thanks facebook! You might loose 500 users rather soon if you keep this up! Fix your anti-spam program & let regular users have their friend requesting back!
You people at facebook really need to take a personal hand in this anti-spam issue & stop hurting regular users who are doing no harm. I have just over 100 people I keep in touch with on here. I'm not here playing apps & adding 1000s of strangers just to play games. I'm not here spamming people or stealing info. I'm here to keep in touch with people I care about!
And because I requested too many people out of my " facebook circle" on facebook, I've been labelled a spammer & blocked for 30 days! Thanks but no thanks facebook! You might loose 500 users rather soon if you keep this up! Fix your anti-spam program & let regular users have their friend requesting back!
Over 1000 comments, mostly posting how they have been victimized by this anti-spam crap. I guess we need to wait till the comments measure in the millions before facebook will take this problem seriously. Until then, regular users who DO NOT SPAM will continue to get hurt by this bs crap anti-spam measure. Facebook needs to stop relying on buggy software to do the job real humans should be doing. facebook owners make hundreds of millions of dollars a year but can not hire a help center team of real people to deal with these issues? Major Fail Facebook!
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