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Did you even read the article? Replying to people who contacted you first is not mass messaging.

• tptacek 18y ago
  Yes. Starting with his ~5000th "friend", he began the routine process of sending messages to people who tried to friend him. Apparently, he sent a lot of these messages. I am not surprised Facebook cut him off. He's using a social network designed to track acquiantances as a tool for propagating content to people he's never even spoken to.
  • neilc 18y ago
    Yeah -- IMHO, having 5000 friends on Facebook is borderline abuse of the service just by itself.
    • unalone 18y ago
      Absolutely agreed. Scoble's always written like Facebook is a tool for marketers. It's not. It was built for college kids. For real-life friends. It was designed to supplement your existing real-life network. And Facebook's got the right to deny you if you use it for anything else.