It’s finally happened… This morning I received a spammy friend request from a non-person on Facebook:
Hi Ms Seasons
Let’s be friends! We are the staff at a Buddhist magazine and this is our new profile.
Oh, how this annoys me. Part of the reason I like Facebook so much is that I don’t get bombarded with these ridiculous requests like I did on MySpace. What’s next, Facebook webcam girls?
I have no problem plugging a store or person or product, but it has to be my own perogative. This is why I like Fan Pages so much - They’re free, they’re not spam and you’re likely to get into a News Feed as long as you get it to the right people (say, I dunno, the subscribers of the magazine, perhaps?)
I don’t want to be the Negative Nancy that cries “This is the End!” but I remember when this started happening on MySpace and it became a slippery slope very quickly.
Oh, and Happy 4th of July! Enjoy the day off, America. I’ll be sleeping in.
July 3, 2008 at 4:58 pm
I have never had any spam friend request yet, but I have had some from people who I have no idea who they are.
July 7, 2008 at 12:10 pm
I’m not on face book. But, thanks for the heads up!
July 7, 2008 at 1:25 pm
It was bound to happen sooner or later!
July 9, 2008 at 5:06 pm
[...] someone named Jason DeCamillis. While uncontrollably rolling my eyes from what I was sure was another spam profile, I decided to check it out. Turns out Jason is from Starling Electric. **Side note: I felt bad [...]
August 6, 2008 at 4:53 pm
I just received two of those - one is from the Salvation Army, the other from a webcam girl. Yippee.