Yesterday, I finally found the time to visit my own facebook page that I’ve neglected since this blog came into existence, which would be about six months. Obviously, facebooking is not on the list of my priorities, but I keep the fb page to stay in touch with my friends, and as long as it’s not too taxing, I don’t mind having it. So, last night I noticed a new trend, which might as well be old news, due to lack of “due diligence” on my part. Waiting for me were a bunch of messages, sent to my fb account between November and February by some unknown gentlemen. The messages, although awkwardly worded and some in the languages that I don’t speak, didn’t sound too bad: They saw my profile. They think I am an awfully beautiful lady. They want to be friends. I was baffled. I even looked around in a “are you talking to me?” way. Moreover, I was under the impression that my fb profile was visible to my friends only. Has fb changed its privacy settings AGAIN? I am beginning to question my fb presence, because I didn’t create my fb account for online dating. Am I angry? Oh, gosh, no. But I am vexed.
It must have been a social media conspiracy, because the same evening my Twitter account delivered a direct message from someone whom I followed through this blog. It read “Someone is saying some real horrible things about you, seen this?” Oh, yeah? Really? What horrible things can someone say about me that I don’t already know? This is not the first time I get this message. Apparently, there are a lot of people out there who say horrible things about me, despite the fact that I have 162 followers on Twitter (which is like having no followers at all) and, since almost everyone on Twitter seems to be talking rather than listening, and playing the numbers game, I find it hard to believe that someone would care enough to say any things about me, let alone horrible things. I don’t mean to kill the messenger, but my tolerance to spam is wearing horribly thin. I’ve unfollowed the account that delivered the message. There is a possibility though that the account owner didn’t send the message, but some app did.
So, if you receive a direct message from me on Twitter mentioning horrible things said about you, please ignore it. You can even unfollow me, but please remember – it wasn’t me! 🙂
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A great lesson is to be learned here. When ever anyone says horrible things about us… we should definitely ignore it; be they real, virtual or viral.
I agree about ignoring. But the first time I got this “horrible” message, I didn’t know any better, so I checked all SM monitoring sites to see if that was true. A friend of mine was fooled in the same fashion. The worst thing is when spam comes from a trusted source.
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I’ve received this message from someone I followed before. She said that her twitter account was hacked. I don’t understand why people would bother doing this.
I guess there are a lot of creeps out there who have nothing better to do than hack Twitter accounts 🙂
I’m head of marketing for a software company, and over this last weekend we received the “someone is saying real horrible things” message – from the Twitter account of one of the USA’s best-known technology analysts!
You can imagine it caused some serious concern before we realised it was just a scam!
I can only imagine what stir it caused. thanks for commenting!
I think those are ‘bait’ messages that you are wise to delete. Someone wants your e-mail address, I would suspect.
I think you are right. Why couldn’t I think about it myself? 🙂 Thanks for your comment!
There are probably a million ways someone can find photo of you if you have any internet presence at all. By accident or design people can look you up to see if you’re on FB, etc. When I first got on FB I received friend requests from multiple half-naked young women with stripper-sounding names that I—obviously—never met. As flattering as that might first seem to a middle-aged man, I would assume that very bad things happen when one accepts such friend requests—I quickly denied them and they never repeated. I’ve even had a FB message from a “normal-sounding” young lady in Florida who wanted to know if I was her father—in that case I did take the time to reply, nicely, that I wasn’t! Spam is everywhere. If a message, tweet, blog reply, or whatever sounds undeservedly mean, ridiculous, or nonsensical, then it stay away from it and don’t give it another thought!
Actually, come to think of it, I received a few messages from women claiming I was the love of their life. 🙂 I don’t know where they got that idea. The only messages I’ve not seen yet would be from anyone claiming they are my children 🙂 And you are right, ignoring those is the best strategy. Interestingly enough, this blog post got quite a number of hits and according to WPress dashboard they came from google searches. I suppose a lot of people got those “horrible things” messages and wanted to know what it was all about.
Its a scam..When I get this message, I usually just ignore this message. Creeps!
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erk – what a revolting experience. I believe fb has changed its privacy rules a fair few times. I make sure I keep up with it. I’m not on twitter all that much so wouldn’t know if I’d been hacked 😀
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