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    If You See A Facebook Status Update That Looks Insane...

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    Always, always, always double-check to make sure you're signing in to www.facebook.com and not some ripoff site that wants to take your info and use it to cause failarity on your status updates. The website 4chan has been doing this to great effect recently...

    Here's how it plays out: you see that a friend has posted something to their own wall that shouldn't be there, like a discussion of sex with a mistress/mister or a penis pic (see here for an example.) Friends pile on, either mocking the user or trying to help them get the image/update removed. The user says something like, "I don't see the Hide button." Of course, that's because it's not really the user at all, but a hacker from 4Chan. Explains The Next Web:

    It seems as though some of message-board site 4Chan.org’s elite has managed to acquire a list of Christian Facebook users and quite possibly their passwords too. In doing so, they’ve hacked a number of accounts, posted a number of extremely embarrassing photos and messages to Facebook walls, and then continued to comment under the shares – pretending to be the actual account owner.

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    Via BuzzFeed and the other above link.

    Commentarium (1 Comment)

    Aug 25 09 - 12:18pm
    Isis Uptown

    A few months ago my Facebook profile was hacked, and the 'bot sent messages to most of my friends, with links to porn. My friends knew it wasn't me, they said, because the spelling and grammar were so bad, and also because I never use "OMFG!"