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Facebook's spam filtering assumes friends won't spam friends. Not the case. Friends spam friends constantly! Why can't they just filter it as "from friends", "
by billpatrianakos 15y ago
Facebook's spam filtering assumes friends won't spam friends. Not the case. Friends spam friends constantly! Why can't they just filter it as "from friends", "from others", then "spam"? Then make the navigation between those folders stick out more.
The way Facebook does it now would make sense if this were still 2004. These days even your Facebook friends aren't really your friends. People with thousands of Facebook friends can't possibly have real, meaningful relationships with all of them. Most people I know just collect friends I'm Facebook like trophies. I get tons of requests from strangers myself. My point is that in times like these when your "friends" aren't really friends, Facebook spam filtering should be implemented like any other email spam filter.
Edit: My phone buzzed just 2 seconds after I posted this comment. What was the alert? A spammy Facebook message from one of my friends.