With just under half a million members, the Facebook group this has got to stop is for anybody dedicated to getting rid of the Facebook application spam invites. Naturally, I’m now a member and anybody with half a brain should be as well.
If you can ignore the crappy video quality and slightly annoying, yet thankfully low volumed, music in the background then watch the video below. Some guy let all the Facebook Application spam invites add up and then filmed them for our viewing pleasure.
And this came from only a grand total of 142 friends. Ouch. A list of all the app requests can be found after the jump.
I’ve gotten a few e-mails recently from people saying they’ve received e-mails from “Mark Zuckerberg” asking them to e-mail him their Facebook passwords. Apparently, a few Nigerians got bored being royal princes and diamond magnates. Below is a copy of the spam message being circulated.
Attention all Facebook membeRs.Facebook is recently becoming very
overpopulated,There have been many members complaining that Facebookis becoming very
slow.Record shows that the reason isthat there are too many non-active Facebook
membersAnd on the other side too many new Facebook members.We will be sending this
messages around to see if theMembers are active or not,If you’re active please
sendto other users using Copy+Paste to show that you are activeThose who do not send
this message within 2 weeks,The user will be deleted without hesitation to create
more space,If Facebook is still overpopulated we kindly ask for donations but until
then send this message to all your friends and make sure you sendthis message to
show me that your active and not deleted.Founder of FacebookMark Zuckerberg
Just in case the massive amounts of typos and grammatical errors or the general overall absurdity of the message, this is spam folks. It’s some kid sitting in his mom’s basement hoping a few people will respond with their password so that he can log in and take over your account. Don’t be one of those idiots!
Some people might wonder why a loser would want their Facebook account when he could easily make his own. Well, think of it this way. Maybe he wants to create an application or already has a poorly built one. So he takes over a few thousand accounts, makes them all add his app, inflates the numbers to make it look like way more people are using his app than reality agrees with, and cashes in on some unsuspecting fool when they pay thousands for his “popular” app. Sounds like a lot of work, but when you get good at the process and can do it over and over easily and quickly, you’re now making a few thousand dollars every, what, month? Fortnight? Week?
Damn spammers.
I don’t have any numbers or figures on how many people import their blog posts into their Facebook notes, but I’m guessing it’s a lot. And of those, a large chunk is certain to be using Wordpress for their blogging platform of choice. I import my posts from my personal site because, like it or not, my friends are more likely to read what I write if I make it available to them on Facebook.
The only thing I hate about it is that my friends then in turn comment on the post while still on Facebook. My personal site has hundreds of comments that I like to sometimes go back and read. But the ones that my friends leave on Facebook? Chances were that I’d never even know about them or, if I did, I forgot about them after a while.
Which is where this nifty plugin for Facebook steps up to the plate. It allows you to import Facebook comments into your wordpress blog with just the click of a button. Download the plugin, customize the settings, upload it to your site, and turn it on. That’s it.
Of course, whenever Facebook updates their code, there’s a chance the plugin won’t work any more. So far the plugin has been updated by various individuals every time it needed to be, but like I said, there’s no guarantee it will continue to be so in the future. But for now, it works perfectly, which is all I care about.
So according to a recent article by Time magazine, Facebook is more popular than porn, which really shouldn’t surpr…wait, what? Facebook is more popular than naked women? Since when?
Perhaps a more interesting — and more accurate — way to figure out where college students are going online is to assess which of the 172 web categories tracked by Hitwise get the most hits from 18- to 24-year-olds. … social networks rank first, followed by search engines, then web-based e-mail — with porn sites lagging behind in fourth.
It’s a leap to say there’s a real correlation there, but if there is one, then I’d bet it has everything to do with Gen Y’s changing habits: they’re too busy chatting with friends to look at online skin. Imagine.
Please allow me to call BS on this story. I’m not saying there are more 18-24 year olds looking at porn than surfing on Facebook, but relying solely on Hitwise to tell you the answer to said question is a bit weak. Where are the bittorrent and P2P download numbers? Where are the straight up warez and download site numbers? And when the hell did I start defending the popularity of porn sites? Ok, this is getting a little weird.
Anyways, the point of this post is to say this: Just wait until porn somehow gets on Facebook. You know it will and while I’m all for naked chicks, I don’t really think we want it on Facebook. Do we? Just look at Myspace. How many spammy profiles are there on there with chicks who just want you to check out their awesome website at www.spampornlink.com?! Yeah, that’s right, way too many.
For all I care, porn can say off Facebook for as long as possible. And I’m pretty sure most people would agree with me on that one, no matter which they like better.
Somehow I missed the fact that a few weeks ago, the country of Syria completely blocked Facebook. As if there wasn’t already enough reasons to never visit Syria, now you can add not being able to poke your friends to that list. I think it falls somewhere between having a hard time finding non-carbonated water and the risk of being blown up. Although, if our Syrian Facebook peers are wise enough, they should already have their favorite proxy sites bookmarked and ready to go.
It doesn’t take a genius to recognize the fact that we’ve got a new design here at Facebook Talk. Why? Because I was bored this weekend and had nothing better to do and was out of liquor! Plus the old design sucked. There are still plenty of tweaks I need to make in order to make it perfect though, so please wait until tomorrow before you flood my inbox with messages along the likes of, “YOUR NEW DESIGN SUCKS!” My sanity and self-esteem thank you.
But come Monday morning, feel free to fire away and leave a comment/send an e-mail telling me about any flaws you still see. Chances are I missed them while combing over the code tonight. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m out to go buy a 2 liter of coke and find my emergency flask.
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