why?

[larz]

Am i getting bombared with myspace spam?

I get like 20 friend invites daily from fake half naked women who think im cute and want to show me their titties, as long as im willing to install this awsome chat/computerfuckvirus program on my pc....

Im also getting bombared by friend invites from Rap groups WTF?!?!? Im not exactly i huge fan of rap, mind you i like a couple songs by ICP, and the Beastie Boys....

Im getting a jillion messages from all kinds of people so awsome they can only be fake!!!!!

Why is that?

I sense a disturbance in the force....




I love how the fake profiles are so fucking obvious, like how three different random chicks will add you, and they all have the SAME profile picture, blogs, layouts, and even interests!!! HMMMMMM maybe their triplets and im just jumping to conclusions......

[OmegaZero_Alpha]

It is the same reason I stopped using myspace. I mean, the whole concept is off anyway. If you are somebodies friend, shouldn't you know their interests and whatnot beforehand? And people who you arend freinds with yet, do you really want to judge somebodies character based off of a profile that may or may not be true.

Some people claim to be just communicating with their friend's through myspace, but what in the fuck is wrong with an email? That way no random people can just hack their way into your conversations (myspace security is a joke)

I assume you can still report profiles as spam, im sure it would help in the long run if you would keep doing that, but im not sure. I should actually log onto my profile and check.

Than again, I usually get little to no spam becuse I never use the damn thing, and only have like 5 freinds, who are people I havent talked to since 2003...

[larz]

Ill add you omega

then ill talk to you everyday....FOREVER

[Biggs]

I used to get spammed like that too.
But now they have an option where you can make them have to go through CAPTCHA before they can send you a friend request. I haven't gotten a fake request since I turned it on, so I guess it works pretty well... for that purpose anyway.

[Naquadria]

Make your account private and it all goes away

[larz]

I used to get spammed like that too.
But now they have an option where you can make them have to go through CAPTCHA before they can send you a friend request. I haven't gotten a fake request since I turned it on, so I guess it works pretty well... for that purpose anyway.

really how do i do this??

[Biggs]

Okay, once you log in click on "Account Settings"
Then click on "Spam" And below that you'll see "Communications Settings"
Check "Require CAPTCHA for non-friends to send me messages" and "Require CAPTCHA" for friend requests.
You can customize the rest of the settings in there however you want to.

[larz]

ahh cool thanks for the tip, ive never noticed this before, must be a relatively new feature.

[OmegaZero_Alpha]

did we just get a new member who only joined to explain a single myspace feature?

[Biggs]

did we just get a new member who only joined to explain a single myspace feature?

No. lol
I registered last month shortly after I got TF2 and I just donated a couple of days ago. This is just the first thread I saw that I could contribute something useful.

And yes Larz, it's only been around for a few months as far as I know.