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December 08, 2010
An irritating feature that can't be turned off. But that's life.
This morning I was irritated to find a stupid piece of spam posted in my name on my Facebook Wall. Eventually I figured out what happened (no, they had not hacked my actual FB account), and I tried to post a helpful warning to whoever might be reading my Wall. But I can't do that, as I am only allowed 420 characters: Your status update is too long. The maximum status length is 420 characters, but it is 826 characters long.OK, so here's what I tried to write but was not allowed to write on my Wall. Facebook Mobile sucks. It appeared that someone had hacked my FB account, because this morning I saw a ridiculous entry purporting to be from me on my Wall -- along with a photo I never uploaded. What had happened is that a spammer had managed to randomly guess my Facebook "personal upload email" address. These are randomly generated and naturally, the spammers crank out millions of randomly generated spam emails until they get a hit. (As they did earlier.) There is no way to stop the feature. Nor is there any way to turn off Facebook Mobile (a feature I do not want and do not use.) The only thing you can do is change the blasted "personal upload email" address and hope the spammers don't randomly generate the new one. When they do, it will again appear that "you" have posted to your Wall, even though you did not. Sigh. An email address I don't want but have to have, and anything that is sent to it by anyone becomes a Wall post from "me." Talk about putting words in people's mouths! Sometimes I get a little tired of irritating features that can't be turned off. But if I look at the big picture, isn't that the nature of life? MORE: If I feel like sharing, will this button help feed the downtrodden masses?
posted by Eric on 12.08.10 at 12:13 PM
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This is really weird. It shows up as 26 shares on the front page and 2 shares on the "comments" page. M. Simon · December 8, 2010 05:56 PM Perhaps it is treating the main page vs. individual posting as two separate pages/sites/locations, and thus have two separate share counts? Anonymous · December 9, 2010 03:56 PM Post a comment
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OK. I get the 26 (currently) shares. But you have left off the selling price.