Spam used to be broadcast: one-to-many.
An interesting side effect of online social networks and the tools which enable user-generated content is people spamming one another in smaller but equally annoying ways.
I've had two in 2 days on Facebook - one offering me fixes to a problem I don't have (£20) and the other pumping a Facebook Poker app ('it's the best I've seen') which could also be a hacked account.
As social technology permits frictionless communication, our behaviour as technology users will need to catch up with the implications, with new codes of conduct (implicit and explicit) governing what is and isn't cool.
Sending everyone in your Facebook friends a promotional message: Not cool.
Agreed Facebook Spam is v annoying and also the increasing amount of Spam on Twitter as well with follow requests with Just URL's coming thick and fast to the point where I had to turn Private. Which annoys me slightly as you can't then be found in the public timeline which I think can be cool for being found by other interesting people being interested in what you have to say. Be good if Twitter could do something about this
Posted by: Duncan | July 25, 2008 at 12:32