This Could Kill Facebook

In both cases my ‘friends’ were making mass mailings without regard to whether their product or client’s product was worthwhile to me. This irks me.

I had to block two Facebook friends this afternoon. It seems they were friending me on behalf of their business so they could send commercial email. Because of Facebook’s inherent friend-to-friend trust there’s not the same kind of spam filtering you find on more traditional email.

In both cases my ‘friends’ were making mass mailings without regard to whether their product or client’s product was worthwhile to me. This irks me.

As it is I already ignore friend requests from businesses. Businesses shouldn’t have personal accounts. They do. This seems to be poorly policed by Facebook. Maybe it’s not policed at all.

When Facebook becomes more pain than fun it will disappear. I will miss stalking your photos.

3 thoughts on “This Could Kill Facebook”

  1. Ah, you’ve discovered the “black hat” marketers. They are the main reason is why I limit my Facebook friends to either people I personally know or if they work in the broadcasting business instead of the vogue habit of collecting random friends like they are Pokemon characters.

    Though you on-air folks might see it differently with stations encouraging their on-air staffers to be sociable with viewers.

    By the way, the people you have to block for spamming you. Report them while blocking them…Facebook has come down hard on some of them for serial “black hat marketing.”

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