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WoW!! I Cannot believe that you can now see who is been stalking at your profile for real! SCAM

Unsurprisingly, and as usual, this is another Facebook scam. If you’re a retarded moron that actually believes ANY app can tell you who has viewed your profile, allow me to tell you absolutely categorically that this is impossible. Even with an API access token with full privileges to your account, no such information exists that an application could query.

It draws you in, because you’re stupid, and think that just because an application advertises a ‘feature’, it must be true. It’s not true. This claim is never true. If you actually install this piece of shit, it just spams the same link to all of your friends, and tries to get you to fill in dodgy surveys in order to ‘unlock’ the real information. The real information doesn’t exist. Even if it does give you a list of ‘friends’ who have allegedly seen your profile, the information is forged. Meanwhile you’ve spammed your entire account, probably managed to get your computer infected with some kind of malware, and reaffirmed to the rest of the world that you shouldn’t be trusted with a computer.

To reiterate: It’s fake. It’s always been fake. It’ll always be fake.

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Facebook

New Facebook ‘Pages Feed’ is bad news for business.

Facebook have now launched the new ‘Pages feed’, allegedly as a response from businesses who were unhappy that not all of their pages posts were appearing on their fan’s news feeds. Facebook uses a complex EdgeRanking algorithm to determine which page posts are relevent, and when to display them to users. Historically only a percentage of posts get displayed due to the sheer number of pages the average user ‘Likes’. To display them all, at all times, would completely fill user’s news feed on a daily basis. In that sense, I’m sort of on Facebook’s side in wanting some method to filter them down.

Critics have accused Facebook of profiteering on this practice, claiming that it is compelling businesses to pay to promote their posts in order to ensure they’re seen by fans. As posts are typically only seen by 20-30% of a page’s fanbase, there is some merit to this argument.

And so we have Facebook’s new ‘Pages Feed’, which shows all posts by all pages that you’re a fan of. Great! Except it’s not great. The knock-on effect is that even fewer posts from pages are now being seen on the regular News Feed. By my estimate, my page posts are now only seen by 10-15% of fans. Not surpringly, Facebook users aren’t particularly motivated to click on a seperate feed in the sure knowledge that a majority of posts will be promotions or basic spam. So rather being being good for business and page owners, this is actually bad. Very bad.

The pressure is now on businesses to promote all of their posts if they want any significant number of their fans to see them. In my initial tests I need to promote posts for at least $5 or $10 to ensure they’re seen by as many users as they previously used to for free.

Yes, Facebook still need to implement monetisation methods to become truly profitable, but we’re not so stupid that we’re going to be sold a new ‘feature’ as a benefit when it’s actually quite the opposite.

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Facebook Thoughts

[Bizarre] At 13, she publically did this EVERY day! How obscene!!

This is another standard Facebook spam like this one that implores you to click on a link to find out the shocking details of a story that doesn’t exist. Do the world a favour and don’t click on it, or share it or anything.

Other variations:

  • [DISTRESSING] At 16, she did THIS in public high school, EVERY day! How foolish!.
  • At 15, she did that in public high school every day! how terrible!!

Seems that fake girls will do anything at any age! :oP

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Facebook

As soon as you “like” this you will yawn

As soon as you "like" this you will yawn

This is yet another test of how stupid people can be on Facebook. This is a picture of a woman, one side blurred, the other side not. The image implores you to ‘Like’ and then ‘Comment 55’ and ‘See the magic’.

There is no magic. What do you think will actually happen? This is Facebook. If you click like, it will like something. If you comment, it will comment. NOTHING ELSE WILL HAPPEN.

This is a viral test to see how many fucking moronic people will follow instructions and expect something to happen. It won’t. If you do actually yawn it’s because your brain is susceptable to the suggestion of yawning simply at the mention of it. Liking an image, commenting an arbitrary number, is not ‘magical’ behavior.

It’s not magic, it’s not mystical, you’re just stupid.

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Facebook

Thank you Morissons, Thank you Tesco, Voucher FACEBOOK SCAM

These scam posts are doing the rounds again. They say ‘Thank you[Tesco] [Morissons] [other supermarket]’, pretending to offer you a free £175 or £250 voucher, accompanied by the words ‘Claim your free voucher, only a few left!’.

Same kind of deal as always here. As soon as you stupidly click the link and go to the page, you get linkjacked and it reposts the scammy spam to your Facebook.

As always you’re an idiot if you click such links. It’s _always_ too good to be true and blindly following links posted on Facebook is risky. Without adequate virus protection you’re likely to be installed with some form of virus or malware that’ll either fuck up your computer or steal your personal details. Don’t click it.