Comments on: Spamming Facebook ‘Friends’ with Affiliate Links http://www.nerdynomad.com/2008/07/18/spamming-facebook-friends-with-affiliate-links/ Backpacking around the world on my income from the internet. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:15:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: Suz http://www.nerdynomad.com/2008/07/18/spamming-facebook-friends-with-affiliate-links/#comment-5547 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:39:21 +0000 http://www.nerdynomad.com/2008/07/18/spamming-facebook-friends-with-affiliate-links/#comment-5547 There's a right way and a wrong way to use Facebook/MySpace/Twitter/Etc. to promote your affiliate links. Right would have been to send out a link to a post on his blog that talks about his life and includes an affiliate link that's relevant. Plus then he would have gotten traffic to his blog. Much more productive in the long run. Wrong is whoring your friends for money *grin*- other wise known as pretending that they won't notice that you sent them a spam link. Really, folks are smarter than that. -Suz There’s a right way and a wrong way to use Facebook/MySpace/Twitter/Etc. to promote your affiliate links.

Right would have been to send out a link to a post on his blog that talks about his life and includes an affiliate link that’s relevant. Plus then he would have gotten traffic to his blog. Much more productive in the long run.

Wrong is whoring your friends for money *grin*- other wise known as pretending that they won’t notice that you sent them a spam link.

Really, folks are smarter than that.
-Suz

]]> by: Will http://www.nerdynomad.com/2008/07/18/spamming-facebook-friends-with-affiliate-links/#comment-4984 Sat, 19 Jul 2008 03:05:51 +0000 http://www.nerdynomad.com/2008/07/18/spamming-facebook-friends-with-affiliate-links/#comment-4984 First there was myspace and I couldn't for the life of me figure out the appeal...it's without question the cesspool of the internet (yes, I have an account but I hate it)...then facebook came along and it is better about filtering spam out but...the drawback is that you have to go through the whole add as a friend thing before you can even browse someone's profile...I suppose it works ok for the 16 year old girls who don't wish to escape their mother's prying eyes...but I have no time for it. I guess the appeal, in short, is that social sites make it easy for....well, like you said, to keep in touch without keeping in touch. My myspace and facebook profiles just list a link to my blogspot blog so that anyone interested can keep up with what I'm doing the spam free way and any spam sent to me on those sites is pretty much lost cuz I just don't check 'em. Good on ya for deleting his sorry, spamming ass. First there was myspace and I couldn’t for the life of me figure out the appeal…it’s without question the cesspool of the internet (yes, I have an account but I hate it)…then facebook came along and it is better about filtering spam out but…the drawback is that you have to go through the whole add as a friend thing before you can even browse someone’s profile…I suppose it works ok for the 16 year old girls who don’t wish to escape their mother’s prying eyes…but I have no time for it.

I guess the appeal, in short, is that social sites make it easy for….well, like you said, to keep in touch without keeping in touch. My myspace and facebook profiles just list a link to my blogspot blog so that anyone interested can keep up with what I’m doing the spam free way and any spam sent to me on those sites is pretty much lost cuz I just don’t check ‘em.

Good on ya for deleting his sorry, spamming ass.

]]> by: Gustafson http://www.nerdynomad.com/2008/07/18/spamming-facebook-friends-with-affiliate-links/#comment-4960 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:54:29 +0000 http://www.nerdynomad.com/2008/07/18/spamming-facebook-friends-with-affiliate-links/#comment-4960 I whole heartedly agree. Spamming via Facebook, MySpace, or any social network for that matter is pretty sleazy. Especially Facebook because they do a far better job of blocking spam. One problem, at least for MySpace is that there are a ton of zombie accounts that are created via phishing schemes. Say you click on a video and for some reason you are asked to sign in again and didn't notice that you are actually an rnyspace.com (RNyspace) or some alternative... BAM your account is now a zombie spamming all your friends in your name... haven't heard of this on facebook though. (the solution to this type of zombie account is to change your password frequently and inform your friends when they have been had - and of course to take spam with a grain of salt... which kinda sucks.) I think a lot of folks forget that an essential element of viral and social marketing is the level of trust that is assumed from being part of a 'closed' network. -- Gustafson http://www.getmesomeflowers.com - MY florist directory! I whole heartedly agree. Spamming via Facebook, MySpace, or any social network for that matter is pretty sleazy. Especially Facebook because they do a far better job of blocking spam.

One problem, at least for MySpace is that there are a ton of zombie accounts that are created via phishing schemes. Say you click on a video and for some reason you are asked to sign in again and didn’t notice that you are actually an rnyspace.com (RNyspace) or some alternative… BAM your account is now a zombie spamming all your friends in your name… haven’t heard of this on facebook though. (the solution to this type of zombie account is to change your password frequently and inform your friends when they have been had - and of course to take spam with a grain of salt… which kinda sucks.)

I think a lot of folks forget that an essential element of viral and social marketing is the level of trust that is assumed from being part of a ‘closed’ network.

–
Gustafson
http://www.getmesomeflowers.com - MY florist directory!

]]> by: DirtyBootz http://www.nerdynomad.com/2008/07/18/spamming-facebook-friends-with-affiliate-links/#comment-4957 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:02:30 +0000 http://www.nerdynomad.com/2008/07/18/spamming-facebook-friends-with-affiliate-links/#comment-4957 Do you think it's possible his account was hijacked or he really was just a shill for some dotcom? Do you think it’s possible his account was hijacked or he really was just a shill for some dotcom?

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