Squatting spammers take over Facebook protest site

Spammers have seized control of a 1.5m user Facebook group. A group campaigning against Facebook's redesign last year, entitled "5,000,000 against the new version of Facebook", has been taken over by get rich quick spammers, who have plastered the group's page with ads. The stated aims of the group have shifted as a result of …

[Kev K]

Shock!! Facebook contains spammers

Yawn - see title

[Winkypop]

What's the difference between...

Facebook and a wasteland of rubbish?

There may be items of value in a wasteland of rubbish.

[Xander]

How the hell

is this news?

Every group with >500 members is spam-flooded. I imagine the creator changed the description himself as an ironic protest or the password to their accout was compromised.

[Jerome]

Graffiti

"Spammers are leaving marketing messages and web links strewn across the Facebook group like the graffiti left by teenagers in an abandoned house,"

What, in an incomprehensible and utterly artless typeface?

[Ian Ferguson]

Get rich quick ads

Recently all the adverts I've been seeing on Facebook (ie. the 'legitimate' ads on the right hand side of the page) are of the get-rich-quick kind. I get the feeling there's a real push, and probably one person/group/business behind it all.

[Pascal Monett]

Who gives a toss ?

It's about a group on Facebook. Who cares what it says ? Even the people that are part of it don't go to it anymore.

[Anonymous Coward]

Awwwww!

Diddums.

[Anony mouse]

WAAAAAHHH!!

facebook broken..

who give one??