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Facebook Event Spam

Facebook · July 11, 2011

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Most of the time I just let things like this pass.  Every now and again… Not so much.

My email notification says I was just invited to an Open House!

Facebook Event Spam

I really have to wonder why?  After all, I’m not in the market, I don’t sell real estate, and the distance to this event is only 3,000 miles away!

Facebook Event Spam 2 Yeah, I know this happens all the time.  What caught my eye was the person who invited me.  It wasn’t a person at all but a profile operating as a business.  That’s a big no no!  Then I noticed they didn’t just invite me, they invited over 3,700 people from all across the country.  So much for my feeling special.

So I have a few choices to make.

  • I can ignore the event all together and just pile it on every other event that’s meaningless to me.
  • I can go see who it was that added me to this event (http://www.facebook.com/fasttrackproperties) and block them and / or report them.
  • I can remove the event and even report it as spam.

I chose to leave a very deliberate comment on the event’s wall. (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=179980565399374)

spam message

Yeah I know, maybe a little snarky, but this was all before my 2nd cup of coffee.  What was even better was one of the organizers responses…

Snarky Response

Nicole, I love the fire (really) and your effort to sell the place is admirable (really) but I beg to differ with you.  I believe you might (need a new business development consultant) (REALLY!)

Let’s all start doing this social media stuff better – ok?

UPDATE:

Incredible but true.  The same people that I mentioned have invited 3,700 people to ye a different open house!  You can’t make this stuff up.  http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=131851766900753

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