Facebook: Apps + Spam = Spapps (my new word of the day)

February 26th, 2008

Ugh it’s been a while, with some general shenanigans going on for me personally (i’ll fill you in in due course) i’ve neglected this badboy somewhat, however i’m back and with more content than you can shake a stick at. 

 I got a notification that i had been ‘bought’ the other day in my facebook newsfeed by one of my friends…. really?  To find out who had bought me i had to add the ‘Owned’ application which i duly did as i was obviously wanting to find out who i was now a skivvy for.  Thats where the fun ended, it asked me to spam my friends and let them add the app as usual which i always skip to just give me the good stuff i want to see. 

Hmmm, was it broken? as it wouldn’t let me skip the invite step, so i spammed a few friends which i didn’t like and when i got to it no-one had bought me at all.  Blatent bait and switch (seems to be happening a lot lately).  I was so annoyed i removed it immediately.  Not only had it wasted my time, wasn’t any fun when i got it but also made me annoy my friends with the invites grrrrrrr.  ‘Owned’ is not the only app doing this, there’s a fair few more out there.  We need some quality control over this crap, otherwise we will just continue to annoy our friends with spam and thats the end of social networking right?

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