I was sending out too many messages on Facebook and now I have this notice plastered on every screen:
Before I go on, I want to make it clear that I am not a spammer. But I do sometimes use the Facebook messaging system to cold-call or solicit to a very specific selection of users. For the most recent case, I was asking students of a certain college for content contribution for one of my websites. I don’t ever send out fraudulent messages that are meant to trick or wrongfully entice the recipients.
The spam warning above is the result of making the mistake of using a general template that caters to everyone who receives it. Facebook’s algorithm was smart enough to catch onto this by the time I sent out 10 messages. Now I’m nervous about even sending legitimate messages to my friends or posting on group discussion boards because this message glares at me when I’m about to hit the submit button.
Unlike other social networking sites like MySpace, I love Facebook as a soliciting platform because it provides so much accurate information about its users. This means that I don’t have to worry about sending a message to an empty fake account or adding a gorgeous female as a friend who’s actually a 45-year-old pedophile.
The Conversation {4 comments}
I’ve got the same message, has yours gone away? If so, how did you get it? And if not, has your account been disabled?
Yes I just got the same message.
Will it go away in the end?
I emailed Facebook’s support team about this message, and the spam warning message soon disappeared.
Interesting… you claim your messages aren’t spam because they aren’t fraudulent. By widely accepted definition, any unsolicited electronic message, sent in bulk, is spam.
You are, sir, a spammer - like it or not.
“Spamming is the abuse of electronic messaging systems to indiscriminately send unsolicited bulk messages. While the most widely recognized form of spam is e-mail spam, the term is applied to similar abuses in other media: instant messaging spam, Usenet newsgroup spam, Web search engine spam, spam in blogs, mobile phone messaging spam, internet forum spam and junk fax transmissions.”
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