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Re: Facebook Beacon and Spam

CreditCardExpert — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:08:17 -0000

[â€œI donâ€™t mind the occasional note from someone I donâ€™t know (or know well) asking me to be friends on Facebook, or to connect on LinkedIn â€¦ But now, new social networking ]

Re: Facebook Beacon and Spam

leightoncooke — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 03:26:29 -0000

I like your idea of a hack that would allow communication over different networks. A few people I know, and who were the reason I joined in the first place, are thinking of leaving Facebook over the privacy issue. When they do for me the shine will be gone and I'll be left with a page full of vampires and growing flowers that bore me to death.

Re: Facebook Beacon and Spam

Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:01:08 -0000

I guess I wasn't clear enough in my editorial to describe the issue.

It isn't one or two folks. This is becoming a trend, in much the same tradition of spammy myspace, in which people feel that because you've become their "friend" on Facebook, you've asked them to hook you up to their mailing list.

The replies I'm seeing here about "just tell them" and "remove them from your list" remind me of the arguments against those of us who complained about spam in the late 90s: "just hit the delete button."

Re: Facebook Beacon and Spam

Tom — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 05:58:46 -0000

Is this really a facebook problem or just humans being spammy?

Yea facebook could do filtering and cap a limit on outgoing messages, but how about just telling these people that you've had enough?

Re: Facebook Beacon and Spam

Andy — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 04:42:03 -0000

I'm lucky (and this is asking for trouble, I know) I haven't gotten any bacn in my faebook at all... yet.
No needless group messages, no 'personal' messages.

I agree with warzabidul - don't add and/many people you don't know face to face.

Also, Facebook does need to work on it's email platform. Make it IMAP or something. At very least let people read the messages in their email rather than just getting a notification.

Re: Facebook Beacon and Spam

TheFraternity — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 03:39:38 -0000

Your wish it our command - you want a cross platform communication system?

Re: Facebook Beacon and Spam

warzabidul — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 03:12:20 -0000

Simple solution, don't add people you don't know face to face. Why add random people to facebook when it's based around the university social network as well as those you know from other walks of life.