MySpace SPAM is out of control
January 23rd, 2007 — dan.linThis is what I want to know. Why is myspace STILL the king of social networks? I can understand when there weren’t too many choices but is that still the case today? Just today I got over a dozen SPAM bulletin messages on my myspace bulletin board in my account. They are all from people I know who would not participate in this kind of solicitation. For example, I know my wife’s cousin who’s currently serving in the Navy in Florida is not really trying to get me to click to a site from myspace to claim a year worth of free pizza.
Neither is my friend Rodrigo inviting me to a HUGE myspace party by linking to a fake myspace profile to request the address where the HREF actually points to an IP address in Hong Kong.
Are all these people’s accounts compromised? Is it the handy work of the Colorado spammer Richter (as discussed on RB #50) ? Whatever it is, its not looking pretty right now. If myspace doesn’t find a real (non-litigious) way of dealing with the spam issue, it is just another reason for people to stop using it and jump to the next best thing. Whatever that is.