Myspace can be a good form of advertising but I wouldn't even consider calling it the best way to advertise. Traffic from myspace advertising tends to be poor as they don't hang around for long and isn't very targeted.
stymiee
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yeah, fake accounts and spammers are now dominating the space of tom...tsk tsk...almost 75% of my messages, bulletins and comments came from spams...
jaepi
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Myspace was good, but now in these days a lot of spammers are busywith account creators and stuff like that, so off the 300 million registered users, i think that almost a 3rd are fake accounts.
yeah, fake accounts and spammers are now dominating the space of tom...tsk tsk...almost 75% of my messages, bulletins and comments came from spams...
Yes, it's really turning into a disaster. I always get fake friend requests and messages. I hope Tom does something about it.
christina>you
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I'm confused. Anyone can just create a MySpace account and send mass messages?
cscgal
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Only if you are on their friends list. That's why friend list bots were so popular.
stymiee
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I hate myspace,bebo facebook etc...
jbennet
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I'm confused. Anyone can just create a MySpace account and send mass messages?
Only if you are on their friends list. That's why friend list bots were so popular.
Yeah, but you don't have to be on a person's friends list to send them messages. I get spam from all kinds of people that I've never added before.
christina>you
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Sounds like a good place to never visit :-O
Ancient Dragon
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I don't use MySpace but this genuinely fascinates me. Are there bots that can send out these messages just like mass emails? Or does MySpace have bot protection in place (that works) and it's all just contacting person after person manually?
cscgal
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I'm beginning to think that some of them are bots.
There's not really a way to tell; they have normal display pictures, normal profiles, normal names, but weird messages and a lot of spam.
christina>you
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There a a zillion bots out for myspace. No doubt most of the spam is from them.
stymiee
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There some product endorsers that creates fake accounts then use it to promote their products by spamming you gazzillions of bulletins and comments. I have a friend that uses a bot that is in charge of adding friends to spread the name of their band. tsk tsk.
jaepi
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christina>you
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So Tom posted a blog about how he is fixing the spam problem.
We've also been working really hard to cleanup the spam problem. In december, Myspace passed Yahoo to become the #1 website in terms of page views. Myspace has become so huge it has attracted the attention of professional spammers. We have been working on blocking them for months and things have greatly improved since our latest code release on Wednesday. On the legal front, we won another case against a spammer. By a combination of legal action and anti spam filters, we hope to put an end to this all and put things back to normal!
You can fight the spam problem by educating yourself about phishing and not falling for their tricks . If you see a friend who is sending spam bulletins or comments, be sure to explain to them how they got phished and how to avoid it. We all work together to keep myspace spam free!
christina>you
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Kind of oftopic but OMG christina. 6000 posts? in under a year? :0
jbennet
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Kind of oftopic but OMG christina. 6000 posts? in under a year? :0
Lol.
Yeah I know, I should probably stop being so addicted.
christina>you
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I am jealous of your superior post count ;)
jbennet
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