Social networking sites are getting spammed

[enter1234]

hey,

Nowadays you have seen that there are lots of people who are spamming social networking sites like facebook, twitter, etc..

What do you think about this?

[noelagnote]

Tips to avoid spam in Facebook:

-Beware of short links that accompany text on your wall from people who don’t normally post links.
-Investigate or research any app that seems too good to be true before agreeing to install it.
-Pay attention to what apps you authorize to post to your wall.

[Arees]

Nowadays everything is getting spammed and it's not easy to control it.

[max2010]

It is the obvious thing as more and more sites appear and they need to be promoted. Some people don't know how to do it properly.

[Virtual Force]

I have also seen some spam things on Facebook but not so much. Beware of adding people in your network.

[ambassaroar]

because there are a ton of social bookmarking blasters on the market, it'll die down once google panda penalizes them for it

[PrimeOutsourcing]

I also observed that kind of spamming to different social sites. You just need to protect your account by setting the privacy and do not just add friends/accept the invite if you do not know the person.

[vipandiversity]

I think your wrong Social networking is the best the best way of get traffic.

[rohith]

I think now days there are a lot of spammers.because people do not know how to use properly and what is the importance of that.

[serena85]

There are a lot of people who spam this place too you know.........

[hhh123]

your are wrong Social networking is the best way of get traffic.

[affortableseo]

Yes your question is right here. But using high quality sites is never become the reason of spamming.

[rishisab]

Every popular and useful place will get Spammers. Its how you tackle them, that makes the difference.

[noelagnote]

Originally Posted by rohith

I think now days there are a lot of spammers.because people do not know how to use properly and what is the importance of that.

I don't think so. Yes, spammers are becoming aggressive but ii have to disagree that people do not know how to use properly and what is the importance of that because the truth is real social networking users are now very much aware of the spam messages and links that are circulating in the social networking sites like facebook, twitter, etc..

[SophieChou]

Viral marketing is highly potent to increase website traffic especially with the help of social networking sites. This is not unknown to spammers and since these sites allow "close contact" between individuals virtually, they also leverage social networking sites to drive contents to their sites.

Originally Posted by vipandiversity

I think your wrong Social networking is the best the best way of get traffic.

Great thing is people are no longer ignorant to these ill-tactics. And while we eradicating these entities from the face of the planet seems impossible,

Originally Posted by rishisab

...Its how you tackle them, that makes the difference.

When someone posts a malicious link to your Facebook page wall, you can remove it, report it for spam, block the user (should the user be unknown to you.) Tumblr is another famous target for spamming via fake reblogs and I had been there. I reported the user which had already been flagged by Google due to outrageous counts in redirects, block the user's URL and I apologized to followers for the spamming.

If you suspect that your contact's wall or blog is used for spam, then do you bit and inform the person because chances are s/he does not have an idea about it.