Spam is worse than ever on myspace

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This is my email trash folder this morning, and each one of those is a fake myspace friend request or spam message. I usually get one or two of these a day, but this morning, the spamfilter floodgates seem to be wide open and they're doing nothing to slow things down. I don't have a large number of friends on there, only about 20 people.

I'm not sure why myspace can't seem to keep this under control. For a company that News Corp spent so much money on, you'd think that they'd have implemented somewhat effective spam controls. All the requests that have been pouring in this morning are all for essentially the same profile created under different names. I'd marked the first couple as spam, but realized it was doing nothing to stop the flow.

I feel compelled to keep using myspace - I've kept in touch and found people I knew from years ago, and I continue to find and be found by old friends. But with such shit administration, I can see why people are searching for new sites for their social networking activities.
 
You are awesome.

I would have accepted all of those...you'd get so many comments, you'd be like the most popular guy on myspace.

Think of the mad props you'd get
 
dude yeah. Always remember the more friends you have on myspace, the more popular you look in front of your REAL friends. None of your real friends will realize that those spammers are not your real friends.
 
I don't see why even use Myspace. Why not email or chat some other way? Anything to avoid those eyesore pages and junk mails and BS from a geek named Tom. People actually feel "cool" from having 200 random losers as Myspace friends?
 
Myspace has its uses. It's good for hearing music, good for hearing from less tech savvy friends. It's a nightmare of ugliness and spam, but the critique that people are stupid for adding friends that aren't really friends is about as insightful as a Jay Leno monologue. Get some new material, haters.
 
Now is a good time to mention that MySpace now (finally) has spam controls you can use to determine who can send you invites, PMs, friend requests, etc. I changed my preferences to ask for a CAPTCHA and I haven't received a spam friend request since.
 
lil smoke said:
I don't see why even use Myspace. Why not email or chat some other way? Anything to avoid those eyesore pages and junk mails and BS from a geek named Tom. People actually feel "cool" from having 200 random losers as Myspace friends?
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I use it to talk to and find people that I actually know. I've found people that I attended college and highschool with that I'd lost touch with over the last 10 years, when I don't have their addresses, IM handles, or email. Since so many people use it, there's a good chance that people you know are on it.

I agree that it's utterly stupid to mark people as friends that you don't even know.
 
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I use it to talk to and find people that I actually know. I've found people that I attended college and highschool with that I'd lost touch with over the last 10 years, when I don't have their addresses, IM handles, or email. Since so many people use it, there's a good chance that people you know are on it.

I agree that it's utterly stupid to mark people as friends that you don't even know.
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yeah I see... but Myspace is the ugliest/buggiest POS in the world. I still can't believe this shit is allowed on the WWW. There has got to be a better way.
 
What the HELL?

Okay seriously, I know there's spam on it, but for most people, it's not NEARLY that bad. No idea how you managed that.
 
lil smoke said:
I don't see why even use Myspace. Why not email or chat some other way? Anything to avoid those eyesore pages and junk mails and BS from a geek named Tom. People actually feel "cool" from having 200 random losers as Myspace friends?
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Last week I couldn't find anyone to attend this awesome Halloween event with me. I posted a bulletin on Myspace and someone who I rarely talk to ended up coming along with me.

Months ago, one of my college friends who I rarely talk to, had a baby, which I noticed by her myspace profile picture. I phoned her about it, and met up with her, along with one of her friends. I am now dating this friend of hers and have been ever since that night.

Both scenarios wouldn't have occurred without Myspace.

I don't understand why you'd want to use it as a popularity contest, but it does have awesome advantages.

Really, any networking tool that has tons of users is a great way to keep in contact with people.
 
Sounds like something going on with your account. If anything, the spam has actually reduced for me. I use to get 1-2 fake friend request every few days, but I haven't seen any in a couple weeks now...

Did you accept a couple fake requests? Maybe that would increase the number sent to you?
 
GSG Flash said:
Switch to Facebook
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I do use Facebook, and I like it. I think all those custom apps are going to be its downfall, though.

But Facebook has it's collegiate roots, and a lot of my friends that never went to college never joined it, even after it was opened to everyone.
Grizzlyjin said:
Sounds like something going on with your account. If anything, the spam has actually reduced for me. I use to get 1-2 fake friend request every few days, but I haven't seen any in a couple weeks now...

Did you accept a couple fake requests? Maybe that would increase the number sent to you?
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Nope, never accept requests from anyone I don't know, never use any 3rd party shit for "pimping out" mah myspace.

I figure it's just someone else networked through me is launching a spam attack. Unfortunately, the filters are shit enough to let the same fake profile through 80 different times.
 
I don't really get spam friends requests anymore, I think its because I'm not really active on MySpace anymore besides the message sending between the friends I've already added.
 
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