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Re: Send a Facebook message to anyone's inbox, for free

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I wonder how much time the OP provided to FB to respond.

It took two months for a response for me from their security team, and in the end their team dismissed my bug as a discrepancy in privacy settings (it isn't). For me at least, it's not really worthwhile trying to make an information leak a publicly known fact — nobody really cares.

What is the bug you submitted that they dismissed?

Re: Send a Facebook message to anyone's inbox, for free

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I'm sure this is probably a quick way to get your account shut down as sending reports that aren't valid concerns would probably be frowned upon. Good find though.

Having your Facebook account locked is the gift that keeps on giving.

It gives you a legitimate excuse not to use Facebook that all your friends must accept unquestioningly, and if the reason is because you sent the Zuck messages he didn't want to receive then you get an awful lot of hipster cred as well.

Re: Send a Facebook message to anyone's inbox, for free

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I'm sure this is probably a quick way to get your account shut down as sending reports that aren't valid concerns would probably be frowned upon. Good find though.

Actually, you don't have to check the final "Submit a report" box to send the message, so I don't think you are actually even submitting one.

Re: Send a Facebook message to anyone's inbox, for free

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I heard that apparently there's a thing called "email" where you can send messages to anyone for free.

Facebook is working on making that useless too by changing everyone's profiles to only list their @facebook.com address and redirecting all email from non-"friend"s to the bit bucket labeled "other" in Facebook's message center.

Source: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/25/facebook-changes-e-...

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