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SPAM! Does MySpace Need a Comments Manager, or what?
By dan | June 12, 2007
How much MySpace SPAM do you get daily?
If you have a MySpace profile, then you are probably aware that spammers frequently gain access to personal MySpace accounts of people who don’t have difficult passwords. The result of this is that you start to receive tons of crappy spam comments from people who are legitimate non-spammer friends. Granted it’s a huge problem, but I think that MySpace can help curb this craziness by implementing a couple low-tech solutions.
The proposed MySpace Comments Manager
Actually, there are two separate features that I would love to see implemented.
For comments left on my profile:
MySpace, please let me delete comments using a multiple-select function!
I get so much comment spam.
Why can’t I just scroll through comments posted on my profile and check a checkbox for each comment I want to delete? We all know that this “checkbox technology” has been available online since 1993-ish, right? So what’s the hold up MySpace? Thank you for granting me access to checkbox technology to delete spammy email messages. Please find a way to apply this to comments as well.
View my recently posted comments:
Another way to help fight the proliferation of MySpace comment spam is to allow everyone to view their history of comments they’ve posted on other people’s profiles. Many people who get their profiles hacked don’t even know that their profile is being used to post comment spam. By allowing people view their own recent comments posted, this creates a more informed community. Maybe even that elusively complex checkbox technology can be somehow applied to this as well, so people can quickly delete comments that they didn’t post themselves.
Even better, does MySpace offer a password generator to members? If they already do, that’s great. If not, MySpace should be helping members easily create more secure passwords for their account.
A little prevention goes a long way.
Topics: User-Generated, SPAM, Community, social networking, MySpace, Security |
