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Dare Obasanjo
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" friends registered social networking business - webmasters - advertisiers - marketers sports - poliltics - family - wellness this is not a trial period - this is a 100% free membership! member login all rights reserved - 1- ? Facebook Moves to Curtail Application Spam: What Took So Long? One of the biggest problems with the Facebook user experience today is the amount of spam from applications that are trying to leverage its social networks to ?grow virally?. For this reason, it is unsurprising to read the blog post from Paul"
"if a group about it numbers in the hundreds of thousands. Spammy applications, ones that send out needless email or trick you into inviting friends, are clearly an issue. One anti-spam protest group, called ?This has got to stop? is now nearing half a million members, up from around 100,000 a couple months ago. This group, and many other, smaller anti-spam groups, explain why there?s been a drumbeat of announcements from Facebook?s platform developer team over the past couple of months, directed at stopping"
"You have all had a chance to throw a zombie sheep at someone or poked, pushed, prodded, slapped and rode hard and put away wet your friends and followers on Facebook, and I myself of course have had enough of the fun. It?s being termed ?application spam"
", and making it easier for them to block ?bad? applications and prevent the social-networking spam that has been piling up on Facebook over the past six months or so. Like Dare Obasanjo, I?m wondering why it took so long. The worst thing about all the Zombie requests and movie quiz invites and all of that spam is that it comes from your friends. Occasionally I even find myself swearing under my breath at them (no, not you, Aunt Mabel) because they are so persistent "
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