I got a message on my Facebook wall today. It read (links replaced):

what up Jen?

get the entrie billboard top100 for your cell from [RINGTONE SITE]

i think that Bre is the owner and cool as hell

Slightly confused, I did some digging around and it looks like it was wall spam. Lovely. Another example from what appears to be the same strain:

Hey [YOUR NAME],

arnt you related to [RANDOM NAME]?

well tell [him|her] thanks for referring me to [RINGTONE SITE] they really did have that tone i wanted [SONG NAME]

And:

hi [YOUR NAME],

just figured i’d drop you a note and say hi

also if you want some kickass ringtones check out [RINGTONE SITE]

The site links vary and people have replied on the person’s wall saying things like, “thanks for the ringtone”, “don’t know that person”, “not related to her”. I wonder if this is happening thanks to Facebook Beacon and if there are any other negative effects.

I guess that means that Facebook has gotten so popular that it can’t even prevent wall spam. Facebook has been all about keeping spam away; I had previously got my account temporarily disabled from sending varied personal messages to too many non-friends about my high school reunion (I was on the reunion committee).

I still refuse to install the fluffy FunWall and SuperWall application; the basic Wall is fine as it is (maybe not anymore), but unfortunately, Facebook won’t even let me move the Wall to the extended profile.

UPDATE 01.21.2008: I reported the spam to Facebook and they wrote me back: “These users had entered their login information on a fake page that looked like our standard login page. The situation has been controlled…”