Spamming Facebook ‘Friends’ with Affiliate Links

I fought Facebook for a long time before peer pressure won me over and I joined the throngs as a Facebook follower. Now I love it. It’s great for keeping in touch without actually having to keep in touch.

I know many people have started to use Facebook as a marketing tool but I haven’t really explored that area at all. I’m not a master marketer and tend to try to focus on building quality websites rather than searching out new ways to attract readers. But I certainly think that Facebook and others like it have lots of marketing potential.

I got a friend request last week from some guy who I vaguely remember as a friend of a friend from high school. I had no idea who he was at first so accepted the friend request to investigate. I realised I was never really a friend of his and have absolutely no interest in what the guy is doing with his life so was going to delete him. But for some reason I didn’t and this afternoon I was surprised to get a message from him. When I opened it up, I was even more surprised to see that he was suggesting a poker site to me, complete with an affiliate link.

If the guy had sent me the message saying that he thinks I might like the site and then mentioned that if I click on his link, he’ll get a few bucks I might not have found the whole thing so offensive. But I think spamming so-called friends through Facebook with affiliate links is pretty low and not being up front about it is even worse.

I think it’s sneaky and I don’t like it and I’ve deleted his sorry ass.

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