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.
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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.”
All due respect, but any time I see the words “I’m not a spammer but” and “very specific selection” or the like in the same paragraph the alarm bells start to go off…
Facebook is a social networking tool, not a commercial tool for cold calling.
I’ve just got this message for including the words pints/beer and the like in those messages you can put in with a friends request.
This is a bit of a problem, I’m Irish - and to send such a request without suggesting meeting up for a pint would actually be quite rude…
Spamming from wikipedia…
” Spamming is the abuse of electronic messaging systems to indiscriminately send unsolicited bulk messages. ”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spamming
FACEBOOK SAYS AN ADMINISTRATOR HAS DETECTED ME SPAMMING. And I received a warning on my personal email address. A WARNING???, with no explanation backed up with examples or proofs where or how did I spam???
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I daily receive mails from my friend on my friend list mostly, to which I reply instantly.
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I request friendships
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I post my views on some forums (those groups I am a member of)
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I play on Pro Racer (a gaming application), I also have been taking part in the online competitons and posted my design links on their forums (see the decals forums) etc.
And, had recently Facebook bring me that warning message about spamming???
Is sending legitimate mails to friends, viewing post on forums considered as spamming?? Coz basically this is when I started getting those stupid, uncalibrated messages!
I want my profile back!
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