Facebook , Spam and Threats
Well, I finally got my first Facebook SPAM message.
Now, normally a person’s newsfeed gets rather cluttered up and becomes a sort of spam-feed really but after learning how to filter things out, it becomes much more manageable. For almost a year now, I’ve been following the progress of a game that has been advertised, The Secret War. It has the honour of being the first and only online MMORPG that actually will get me to pay for it. There are other games that I never bothered because I never had the system that could handle it and really couldn’t afford it. This game has so many elements of things that I like (Lovecraft, Conspiracy, Myths) that I can’t ignore.
The company partnered up with Facebook to help promote the game in a kind of pre-release FB-style of game. It’s rather interesting but not overly engaging. Really, I think the point of it is to simply meet other people online and once the game is officially released, there will be some sort of connection. Maybe not, but that’s my feeling.
So, to that end, I started added a TON of people because in the game, if you want to affect more areas, you need more friends. Sure, you could be fine with only 50 or so FB friends but if you want to do more, you need to add friends. Ok, I’ll bite, let’s see where this goes. I started adding friends like MAD. I am up to 1100+ friends now :)
A couple of days ago I got a SPAM message. I was surprised but thought I’d have fun with it. Check it out:
I haven’t heard back from yet. I’m disappointed.
So then I got this threat from Facebook about blocking my account!
“We received feedback that you sent friend requests to people you don’t know, which isn’t allowed on Facebook. Please only send friend requests to people you know, like classmates, family, friends and coworkers. Otherwise, you could be blocked from sending friend requests.”
Please note the emphasis I added. You are NOT allowed to add people you don’t know. So let’s go back to the game where if you want to have more agents you HAVE to add more people. This essentially limits you to how effective you can be in the game if you follow the rules 100%. This also means people with more friends are guaranteed to win at the game. So much for fairness.
Facebook irks me.
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