Comments on: Your Friends Don’t Mean to Send You Spam http://www.thehappyaccident.net/your-friends-dont-mean-to-send-you-spam/ Greg Pincus talks social media and happy accidents (and sometimes chocolate) Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:58:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Greg Pincus http://www.thehappyaccident.net/your-friends-dont-mean-to-send-you-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-1228 Greg Pincus Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:21:21 +0000 http://www.thehappyaccident.net/?p=1824#comment-1228 That same 24 year old woman DM'd me, too, Lee! What are the odds :-) And the idea of alerting Twitter (or wherever) about abuse is good when people have time. These types of issues aren't what any network wants for their users. In this case, Twitter has been finding infected accounts, locking them down, and resetting the password (and sending out an email notification). Hopefully, they'll find solutions to slow/stop these events earlier on.... .-= Greg Pincus´s last blog ..<a href="http://www.thehappyaccident.net/your-friends-dont-mean-to-send-you-spam/" rel="nofollow">Your Friends Don’t Mean to Send You Spam</a> =-. That same 24 year old woman DM’d me, too, Lee! What are the odds :-)

And the idea of alerting Twitter (or wherever) about abuse is good when people have time. These types of issues aren’t what any network wants for their users. In this case, Twitter has been finding infected accounts, locking them down, and resetting the password (and sending out an email notification). Hopefully, they’ll find solutions to slow/stop these events earlier on….
.-= Greg Pincus´s last blog ..Your Friends Don’t Mean to Send You Spam =-.

]]> By: Lee Wind http://www.thehappyaccident.net/your-friends-dont-mean-to-send-you-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-1218 Lee Wind Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:34:08 +0000 http://www.thehappyaccident.net/?p=1824#comment-1218 Yes, when a famous editor DM'ed me yesterday I was all excited... until I saw she was actually a sexually frustrated 24 year old who wanted me to help her... Sigh. Good info about it happening, and it's super useful to now know how to stop it if *I* suddenly become a sexually frustrated 24 year old woman... Thanks for all you do! Namaste, Lee .-= Lee Wind´s last blog ..<a href="http://www.leewind.org/2010/02/chimamanda-adichie-on-danger-of-single.html" rel="nofollow">Chimamanda Adichie on The Danger of a Single Story</a> =-. Yes, when a famous editor DM’ed me yesterday I was all excited… until I saw she was actually a sexually frustrated 24 year old who wanted me to help her… Sigh.
Good info about it happening, and it’s super useful to now know how to stop it if *I* suddenly become a sexually frustrated 24 year old woman…
Thanks for all you do!
Namaste,
Lee
.-= Lee Wind´s last blog ..Chimamanda Adichie on The Danger of a Single Story =-.

]]> By: Sharon Mayhew http://www.thehappyaccident.net/your-friends-dont-mean-to-send-you-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-1215 Sharon Mayhew Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:09:41 +0000 http://www.thehappyaccident.net/?p=1824#comment-1215 Thanks for the information. :) I just got one of these...ummmm...interesting tweets from someone (a famous blogger in the writing wrold). I sent her an email last night. .-= Sharon Mayhew´s last blog ..<a href="http://skmayhew.blogspot.com/2010/02/literary-agent-mark-mcveighand-me.html" rel="nofollow">LITERARY AGENT MARK MCVEIGH...and ME</a> =-. Thanks for the information. :) I just got one of these…ummmm…interesting tweets from someone (a famous blogger in the writing wrold). I sent her an email last night.
.-= Sharon Mayhew´s last blog ..LITERARY AGENT MARK MCVEIGH…and ME =-.

]]> By: Book Chook http://www.thehappyaccident.net/your-friends-dont-mean-to-send-you-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-1213 Book Chook Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:47:14 +0000 http://www.thehappyaccident.net/?p=1824#comment-1213 There has been a rash of them this week for sure. Luckily, I was quick enough to know that most librarians wouldn't be promoting Viagra! One step I took was to contact Twitter, not to report the contact themselves for spam, but to report that it was happening. Someone also went to an education Ning I belong to tonight, to put up posts and discussions all over about how good their law firm is. If only they could grasp that theirs is the very last law firm any of us would ever use! .-= Book Chook´s last blog ..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheBookChook/~3/MmAmx6cVjug/letter-to-book-chook-free-reading.html" rel="nofollow">Letter to the Book Chook - Free Reading Material</a> =-. There has been a rash of them this week for sure. Luckily, I was quick enough to know that most librarians wouldn’t be promoting Viagra! One step I took was to contact Twitter, not to report the contact themselves for spam, but to report that it was happening.

Someone also went to an education Ning I belong to tonight, to put up posts and discussions all over about how good their law firm is. If only they could grasp that theirs is the very last law firm any of us would ever use!
.-= Book Chook´s last blog ..Letter to the Book Chook – Free Reading Material =-.

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