There I was minding my own business on Facebook when a friend request popped up. Now how nice is that? Someone wants to be my friend. After 2 years of social networking the requests start to slow down and navigating the site becomes a test of navigating through melodramatic status updates and covert invitations to Mafia Wars / Mobwars / Youville / Happy Aquarium / etc.
Lucia Pahmeier … nope, doesn’t ring a bell. She seems to be a good decade younger than me to boot, so it can’t be school or co-op. Sometimes it’s good to take a chance, and being a male, my brain isn’t the only organ weighing in on the pros and cons. Still, Lucia only has 2 friends? I’m one the first people she thought to contact on the web? Seems unlikely. A few warning bells go off.
Lucia got something pierced … what, I wonder? The alarm bells are very loud now. The clincher is that Lucia is unable to put up any more pictures in facebook (what else do young ladies do on Facebook apart from spread sappy memes and play Farmville?) but she leaves a link to pictures. Riiiiiigggght. Good chance that obvious link forwarding URL is heading to a porn site. Part of what made MSN Messenger unusable was having to deal with 20+ friend requests per week from what amounted to she-bots promising hours of online sexual self-gratification if only you’d come visit an external website. Facebook seemed to be somewhat resistant to such sly advertising though obviously someone could just create a profile and try to snag males seeking another “hot chick” for their Facebook stable.
And there you have it.
Facebook is now officially a spam target.
Lucia acquired about 50 friends before her friend request and profile disappeared. This was no doubt due to complaints from real users but she won’t be the last of her kind. Facebook’s social network is too rich for Porn / Viagra / etc sites not to try penetrating its secure layers.
The important part of this story is that I did not let Lucia become my friend and in turn have access to my personal details. As mentioned in an earlier Facebook tutorial, advertisers are very eager to get get access to user demographics, which tend to be cleaner and more appropriate for marketing purposes than most other sources (and are of course free). Think twice before you accept a friend request unless you absolutely know the person. Also, don’t be afraid to send a private message for confirmation before accepting.
Until you say otherwise I shall assume that that was intentional…:^)
As for the site: Needless to say, chicks that look like THAT don’t need any help getting hook-ups. Much more likely that most of the girls on there are pasty wildebeests who don’t know the difference between thickness & morbid obesity.
I plead the 5th …
And yeah, you probably don’t want to know what kind of girls are on those singles sites. I’ve seen some pretty average gals throw on a miniskirt and wander into a club with great success. If you can’t even manage that …
Heh…somebody friended me w/ a profile that wouldn’t show any info other than a profile pic (though they had like 90 friends). I went ahead and confirmed to see what the deal was, and they had a link to the exact same site your spammer did, same opening page booty pic & everything. It hath been reported.
Too bad they don’t at least have the decency to attach a name to that righteous donkey. She’d be famous!
Is that girl saying, “Kiss my you know what” in that picture at the bottom?
She’s at least been airbrushed to say so
Pardon the pun in the last word of my previous post!