Showing posts with label Spam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spam. Show all posts

Thursday, June 20, 2013

Facebook Hashtags : New Way To Spam

No one wants spam but everyone love innovation and that is what happened on Facebook Hashtags. Today I can't see that a big problem yet but once spammers found it useful way to do their intention, Hashtags from then will suffer from spam attack.

Because this is more convenient way to publish/share your post to specific audience that is interested in your topic. Example this post is about costume play and you will tag this as #Cosplay, this post will come together with all posts in Facebook with a hashtag of cosplay and they will find it all here https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/cosplay. 

taken from Facebook


Originated from Twitter, but already implemented from blogging platform (Blogger.com, Wordpress.com, Blog.com) before Twitter launched but since social network influence most of internet user, the credits put on Twitter. Because of the convenient way of this system offers, Facebook also decided also to launch hashtags. 

Of course this will be a big improvement for Facebook, but I'm not closing the issue that this might be a big threat to their anti spam system. Actually, Facebook is still on serious problem to eliminate spam content in their network since due to the fact that social network is the busiest website on world wide web and everything can spread as a matter of click, this is the favorite target of spammers and with hashtags they do it easily.