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February 21st, 2008 at 9:21 am

Friend Spamming Leaving Facebook?

You have all had a chance to throw a zombie sheep at someone or poked, pushed,  prodded, slapped and rode hard and put away wet your friends and followers on Facebook, and I myself of course have had enough of the fun.  It’s being termed “application spam” or what Mike Arrington is calling “friend spamming.”

Facebook has become nearly a dead entity for me.  I continue to build my community there and I have used it to talk to some of my friends and colleagues, but for the most part I ignore it.  Some of my friends on Facebook are rabid users.  I say this only because I get 100 emails a day about my Funwall and Superwall and Likeness results and everything else that goes on inside the community.  At first I tried to keep up with the madness, but I already have ADD from Twitter and I can’t do both. 

Arrington reports:

First, users can block applications when they receive a request, so no additional requests from that app will get through. Second, they added a “clear all” requests feature that erases all pending requests (my new favorite, and most used, Facebook feature). Also, Facebook is watching how many people block or ignore application requests - too many, and an application has restrictions placed on it.

I think Facebook must have their ear to the ground and a bug in my office.  Whenever I say something bad about them, they do something that doesn’t suck.

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    […] Jim Turner wrote an interesting post today on Friend Spamming Leaving Facebook?Here’s a quick excerptYou have all had a chance to throw a zombie sheep at someone or poked, pushed, prodded, slapped and rode hard and put away wet your friends and followers on Facebook, and I myself of course have had enough of the fun. … […]

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    Yep I as well have really languished using Facebook in the past few months for the same reason. It’s funny how emails, if they become feeling “spam like”, have the exact opposite effect - makes me want to use a service less.

    Webomatica on February 21st, 2008
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    Haha, to your last point: I think it’s that they’re so good at sucking that everyone says something bad about them.

    And when everyone says it–you’d be stupid not to listen.

    Devin Reams on February 21st, 2008

 

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