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How Facebook killed spam

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Re: How Facebook killed spam

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I get a lot of spam on facebook. The main categories are: 1. Applications unwittingly installed by naive friends that post annoying updates all the time to my wall, effectively hiding the little signal in there. Each time a friend uses a new application I get more spam until I hide it. A variant of this is the unhideable notification that a friend started using a new application; getting rid of these requires hiding…

the best way to increase the signal to noise ratio is to install a third party filter program. FB Purity, is an excellent example, it filters out all the previously mentioned application spam, and also lets you filter out events, facebook places, tagged in messages, etc etc. You can hide as many message types as you like, you will notice a huge improvement, you can get it here: http://www.fbpurity.com

Re: How Facebook killed spam

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post #5

It would be very useful to share those per application analytics to Facebook developers so developers know which messages are getting reported as spam / liked / etc instead of just telling developers after the fact that their message is now blocked (or their app got killed).

that would be a boon to the spammers though, as it would let them fine tune their messages until they can get through the filters
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