Most likely. It could also be that some people are using the "invite to join"
functionality and his e-mail address.
As for FB itself, it is a tool. Like every tool, it can be used in good or
stupid ways. For me, with family and friends spread over several countries on 3
continents, it is an extremely useful tool. I cannot recall every receiving a
spam message that I could trace to my activities on Facebook. But then again, I
have taken the trouble to actually understand the privacy settings and to set
them to the max, so that effectively only the people I want to see what I am
doing can do so.
If you look at my public profile, you will not see much and much of what you
see is blatantly false.
Nathan (the scourge of marketing databases)
Nathan Wajsman
Alicante, Spain
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On Mar 2, 2011, at 8:19 PM, Chris Crawford wrote:
> Those emails are not from facebook, they're from spammers who just use
> Facebook's name to lure you into giving them personal info. I got them
> before I ever signed up for Facebook.
>
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> On 3/2/11 11:53 AM, "Bill Pearce" <billcpearce@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> John,
>>
>> As I always tell friends that ask me why I'm not on it, I already have more
>> ways to waste time than time to waste.
>>
>> I used to get these too, but that was when I signed up for that stupidity.
>> The requests were sent to my FB page, blank by the way, and forewared top my
>> email. I removed the page, and no more requests. How some stranger could get
>> your email address for that purpose is beyond me.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: John Hudson
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 10:04 AM
>> To: Olympus Camera Discussion
>> Subject: [OM] OT - the scourge of Facebook
>>
>> How people out there in OM land are Twits, Tweeters, and Facebookers?
>>
>> Every day now I am receiving messages from Facebook saying that yet another
>> "friend" wants me to sign up, "friends" I don't know and have never heard
>> of. These messages are time wasters and just a pain in the as*.
>>
>> I don't do Facebook and likewise Twitter. I do not have time to waste on
>> these frivolities.
>>
>> How can I expunge myself from the Facebook email spam generation engine ?
>>
>> jh
>>
>>
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