Something I don't understand about facebook

[yesthattom]

There is a company that has about 15 zillion plug-ins that all turn out to be funnels into their “someone has a crush” “someone sent you a kiss” “someone sent you a rose” or whatever system.

Once you sign up, you keep getting emails saying, “An anonymous person sent you a ____. Click here!”

Occasionally I get email saying that a non-anonymous person has sent me a ____. However, nothing I’ve clicked on has told me who the person is and I usually end up in a loop where they try to get me signed up to some dating site.

Has anyone EVER successfully found out who the non-anonymous person is, or is this just a scam?

(or is it that I use Firefox and their system only really works for IE?)

Comments

[tamidon.livejournal.com]

I'm not understanding facebook.I got on it because alot of my nonAmerican cousins are on it,but I don't find it at all communicative like LJ is.I think I be old and clueless somehow.

[snowboardjoe.livejournal.com]

I've not seen anything like this on my account. I get invites to try out new applications from people I know, but I ignore most of them. Every new application you seem to install/enable wants to notify everyone on your friends list by default. I just don't care to use Facebook for that.

[airshipjones.livejournal.com]

I don't do any of those type of apps. I only use the media apps, Scrabulous, and Imperial Galaxy, and the Wall. I don't see the emails for that stuff you mention, tho' I do see friends doing stuff like the pirate game or the vampire thing, and what not.

What are your privacy settings?

[dieppe.livejournal.com]

It reminds me of Classmates and their "Someone has signed your Guestbook! Sign up (i.e. give them money) NOW to see who it was!"

I have like 12 non-anonymous, random people who were in my class/school who didn't "sign my guestbook" anonymously.. but Classmates won't show me who they are unless I pay.

I wonder if it's a similar thing? I hate stuff like that. For all you know some of the messages could be "Ha! Psyche!"

[pyrzqxgl.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've gotten any email like that, but I do see ads like that in some of their apps.

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

Would you like to experiment? I'll do a non-anonymous click on you and see if you get the email.

[pyrzqxgl.livejournal.com]

I don't know! If it is some application that spams everyone on your friends list, I probably shouldn't go through the add-the-application thing I would need to do to respond/accept/whatever.

[naughty-halo.livejournal.com]

I HATE FACEBOOK. I think it has the worse interface. So annoying. I am on it but I never go one.

I don't think I got any of those type emails though.

Been there. Done that. Solved it.

[2nd-story-story.livejournal.com]

Yes. I went around that loop several times, refusing to bite. I use Firefox, too, so I can't answer that question. But I solved the problem by clicking on the grayed "X" to the right in the "News Feed" area of each such temptation. Eventually, they stopped showing up.

I use facebook to keep up with my younger relatives and I find it sometimes annoying. After all, it started out as a school thing. But if I want to complain, I'll complain about MySpace -- too slow, too clunky, too many advertisements, too little content.

Cheers,
Alan

Stupid Facebook

[mrfantasy.livejournal.com]

Ever notice how there's no reliable way to stop these stupid applications from polluting your newsfeed? I hate them. It's so 2006. I'm done.

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

I don't understand anything about FaceBook.

But I'm kind of a technophobe.

Who has 35+ Macs. Yeah, technophobe.

[emboline.livejournal.com]

I hate facebook...
You always have to annoy your other friends to get the answer you wat or soemthing.

I find Facebook to be major lame, hard to work with and in general a rip-off of sorts.

[likethewatch.livejournal.com]

Yes, actually! Go into the module you're interested in seeing non-anonymous matches for, don't invite or prod anyone on your way in (click Skip, basically) and once you're in, there are 3 or 4 tabs, one of which is matches. Click that one and you'll see who's clicked you. I have many admirers on other land masses, not so many in the Americas. I am so not bragging.