Can Facebook SPAM Get Worse?

I have to finally erupt into a bit of a rant here, for I am constantly getting email notifications these days for Facebook’s Public Events, which seem to have become the new Facebook SPAM.

I mean we all know Facebook SPAM is an epidemic already, but my goodness it’s actually getting worse!

When you create an event, you can easily invite every friend on your entire list.

And maybe your intentions are good, I mean we’re all trying to make our business a success, and sometimes we do want to help.

Sometimes these events might actually be providing value, but there is a line that I think has been crossed.

But then most of the time they are blatant pitches, products, opportunity meetings, you name it.

And apparently, Facebook no longer considers these ‘Event Invitations’, for which I have unchecked to receive email notifications.

I do however want email notifications when friends send me actual Facebook messages (which may be why I get these ‘notifications’), because about half the time the Facebook messages are truly personal communications between us as people.

And then, Facebook messages are a healthy category of Facebook SPAM all on their own.

Of course I don’t even need to tell you about the links posted all over
SPAMs half acre and your own personal Facebook wall ….

Facebook SPAM has been a growing problem along with Facebook’s own popularity, but with these new ‘Public Event’ emails, it has grown to epic proportions.

I’m sure I’m not the only one having noticed this, are you seeing what I’m seeing?

Recent Facebook SPAM in My Face

Some of the subjects in my recent inbox have been:

Get Your FREE Video Email System Today!($47 Value)

Make Money Giving/Getting FREE Stuff!

And these two were from the same person in the same 24 hr period!

Needless to say they are off my friends list…..

Now I know, I might take the opportunity to offer them some free training, how to do social media marketing and what constitutes Facebook SPAM, but honestly, I’m just not going out of my way to look for people who just don’t get it!

Business Check-Up: How to Keep Your Business Healthy

This is for a local event in FLORIDA! I am at least a 10 hr drive from there, you’d think they could at least check for friends to invite from their area!

2 week Thirty-One Gifts Catalog Party!

Did I say I wanted a new purse? Well I do, but I’m certainly not going to look through this person’s catalog, that’s rewarding bad behavior!

(so tell me, does this stuff actually WORK? Maybe I’M doing it all wrong!

Million Dollar Facebook Marketing Secrets

Hmmmmmm……   Really ??? !!!!!! I suppose I can join that webinar and learn how to SPAM!

Is a Facebook SPAM Attack Good Marketing?

If I had joined someone’s list and was actually interested in what they had to offer that would be one thing.

And if I had joined their group (eh hem, and I don’t mean having been involuntarily added to their group!), then I might expect occasional messages from them.

I would just hope that even those would be following the 90/10 rule of value over promotion, but that’s assuming they’re astute in the social media marketing medium.

But it does seem as many people are not yet aware that making friends on Facebook does not qualify those friends as having opted into your list!

Therefore it is Facebook SPAM to blindly add all of your Facebook friend to a ‘public event’!

Now there are certainly other forms of Facebook SPAM, including the propagation of virus’ through posts that include links. There are even new safeguards being implemented by Facebook.

But I just had to harp on this one new piece of Facebook SPAM evolution, the now dreaded ‘Public Event’.

It is not proper marketing to send out these notices to your entire set of ‘friends’!

Likewise, adding people unwillingly to Facebook groups just so that you can message to the masses is most certainly another new and growing form of Facebook SPAM.

If you have even begun to learn about Effective Social Media Marketing, you would realize that relationships are absolutely critical to your long term success.

Your marketing activities should be focused on collecting contacts and building your list. And it bears repeating that your Facebook list is not your opt-in list!

So, it makes no sense at all to be alienating people by throwing out Facebook SPAM, as this will certainly not keep your friends or grow your list!