Second rogue Facebook app bewilders users
Scoundrels have created another rogue Facebook application, the second to hit the social networking site in less than a week. In the second attack, Facebook users receive notices that they have supposedly being reported for violation of the social networking site's terms of service by someone in their friends list. A link on the …
deserve everything they get.
The ONLY reason to use FB is to play MOB WARS.
What's bewildering is the average internet user seems to be dumb enough to click on anything. If you want to lose all of your money, your house, your reputation: "Click here"
I saw this incoming notice yesterday and though "that's bollocks". I can only assume that, having seen it only once and surely being connected to many below average "friends", it was actually too scary for many to click on.
Paris - because she has not clicked on the friend invite I sent her yet.....good lass! ;-)
But in their race to become popular these sites should have operated a whitelist policy rather than a blacklist one for their so-called APIs - although it wouldn't have made you instantly bollock-hot property it could have saved some tears in the long run.
Mousehunt. That's the ONLY reason.
right, who's next...?
surely better advice would be - stop using facebook and get a real life :p
who? the narn or the centari?
yes.
Someone kill facebook and put us all out of its misery
LOL, facebook users form a group for anything, as though by being in a group it makes things better.... it reminds me of how decisions in the public sector get made (at least in the places i have worked) ....
"Can't make a decision on your own? ", "Even though it's technically your responsibility?" ... "Well form a comitteee that way no-one gets the blame!"
Lee - I just tried to click on "Click here" but your link doesn't work. Please fix it and I'll try again ;)
Indeed. The perfect epithet for these blackguards.
I have started two groups in my time,
'We have empty howling souls', specifically for El Reg members who have the dishonour of also having facebook accounts (15 members, I'm sure it got up to 17 before I lost interest months ago). Feel free to apply to join, I'll add you any month I log on.
and
'Don't join my group - it's only for me', which has one member, and isn't for joining, and is a poste something or other comment on the Facebook meme. Or something. 'We' even have real life meetings for that one, and interchanges are quite vigorous.
PH Icon? I've just made a comment about vigorous interchanges, and you have to ask?
'Think very carefully' and 'facebook users'
Not often u see those 2 phrases in the same sentence...
Is that a typo, or do you really /live/ the word 'Scoundrels'?
Never ever, EVER give the internet your real identity.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFKHaFJzUb4
Perhaps Graham Cluely needs to think very carefully about using "Think" and "Facebook User" in a single non-derogatory sentance.
Mainstream computer users will click on anything and enter any password they're asked for if they think they'll lose/gain something for not doing it/doing it. This is why, short of introducing mandatory competance tests, we'll never produce anything truely secure that's suitable for mainstream use.
i dont think i have added 1 single application !
i feel smug !!
Remember "Good Times"?
Or the numerous chain letters you immediately deleted, knowing full well that forwarding it on to everyone in your address book would *NOT* make you fabulously wealthy, and the process of deleting it would *NOT* wreak terrible havoc on your life...
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