"THIS IS NOT SPAM" Um, Yes, It Is.
Posted by Ellie Mirman on Thu, Jan 08, 2009 @ 12:08 AM
If your message says "THIS IS NOT SPAM" then yes, yes it is.
I just got my first purely spam Facebook message that literally began with "THIS IS NOT SPAM". I'm not a big eye-roller, but I can't help but roll my eyes at this.
As I've gotten more active in the social media world (blame Twitter), I've been getting more and more requests to connect (mostly on Facebook, a few on LinkedIn) from people that I don't actually know. I don't recognize their names or their photos or can't figure out how we're possibly connected. I've struggled a lot with figuring out how to respond - accept the friend request? Let it sit in pending forever? Ignore it and limit my profile only to my close friends?
I haven't quite figured out for myself what I'll do in these cases yet, except for the case of getting a purely spammy request. Yep, in that case I just blog about how spammy social media can get.
