Facespam

[Swimmin' Salmon]

Seriously.

 

Got some spam today from stareye. I mean, I know it isn't him, but folks would likely be well served to not follow the provided link.

 

The text of the message was "I heard Aaron is making money online with ******************** .INFO"

 

(I deleted the name so that illiterates wouldn't be following it inadvertently.)

[nikki.]

I got a star-spamm too, on Facespace. It turns out "Aaron wanted me to let you know about [blahblahblah]" as well as the money thing.

 

(Also, is this a +1 moment?)

[*i]

Hopefully fixed it. Can't keep off the army of Facebook spambots forever.

[Lilith]

Originally Posted By: *i

Hopefully fixed it. Can't keep off the army of Facebook spambots forever.

did you go around to aaron's house and break his thumbs

[The Almighty Doer of Stuff]

I got it too, but it said "hey there I was just talking to Aaron and they asked me to show you this" + URL.

 

I'll PM him here in case he doesn't visit the board for a while, so he'll get an email.

 

EDIT: Or not. Two posts while I wasn't paying attention.

[Ephesos]

See... when Facebook "revamped" its privacy settings, I pretty much shut down everything. Check that stuff, you'd be surprised who and what you've given access to your information.

[Alorael at Large]

Facebook used to be an evil time sink. Now it's evil and a time sink.

 

—Alorael, who is essentially a non-user. He's happier that way. He can get his urgent need to find out about everyone's lives met by pestering everyone about lives.

[Randomizer]

I still have to live with my email address being used as an alias going around and sending spam. At least there are fewer unable to deliver messages to delete.

[Aran]

This leaves the question: Who the hell is Aaron?

 

The bot was pretty thorough, too. From the recipient list on the message I got, it sent the message in batches to the maximum number of people each, going down the contact list by alphabet.

[Swimmin' Salmon]

Did you expect a bot to miss a few names here and there, or perhaps not sort them alphabetically?

 

My question is which of stareye's faceapps is responsible for this?

[Student of Trinity]

Aran has been passing the Turing test for so long, he forgets that some bots are allowed to act bot-like.

 

Edit: Or rather, he pretends to forget, so we won't suspect him.

 

Edit: Which is an efficiency in impersonation that no true human could attain, and is thus a fatal flaw in his algorithm, giving the game away.

 

Edit: Which proves he must be human after all, since an Aran-bot would surely be too smart for that.

 

Edit: Uh. Hmm. This is reminding me of another part of Mr Turing's oeuvre. Fortunately for me, physics always offers a solution to the halting problem.

[Aran]

Quote:

Edit: Or rather, he pretends to forget, so we won't suspect him.

I am not a werewolf, I'm the doctor! Honest! Don't lynch me!

[The Mystic]

That's one reason I avoid facebook, myspace, etc.; you can't really tell who's real and who's not.

 

Originally Posted By: Poached Salmon

The text of the message was "I heard Aaron is making money online with ******************** .INFO"

I get similar junk in my email and "snail mail." What gets me is this: If it's such a great way to make money, why do you have to sell it to make money?

[Ephesos]

That sounds like witch logic!

[Acky]

Pretty much why I never got into the whole Facebook/Myspace thing. I don't feel like getting messages asking me to join your club.

[Sudanna]

Never had a problem with that.

[A less presumptuous name.]

I've never really had trouble with third party software spamming me. Occasionally, they don't work. But the only thing that routinely goes wrong is facebook itself. But hey, I'm an addict.

[Alorael at Large]

It's not your apps that spam you. It's other people's apps that spam you on their behalf.

 

—Alorael, who has no idea how one halts Turing tape. He imagines that stickier tape is involved.

[Student of Trinity]

Eventually the battery runs out of juice, and the machine stops. Unless you invent a Turing machine that powers itself by burning tape. Heh. That might actually be an interesting concept.

[VCH]

I've been reading this topic's title as facepalm. lol.

[Swimmin' Salmon]

By design, my friend.

[Dikiyoba]

Originally Posted By: Ackrovan

Pretty much why I never got into the whole Facebook/Myspace thing. I don't feel like getting messages asking me to join your club.

There are enough people here who dislike Facebook that I think I'll start an I-hate-Facebook club. Care to join?

Dikiyoba.

[Erebus the Black]

sign me up

[Alorael at Large]

If you replace "club" with "Facebook group" there, I'm in!

 

—Alorael, who wants the message to reach the masses.

[Celtic Minstrel]

Originally Posted By: Dikiyoba

Originally Posted By: Ackrovan

Pretty much why I never got into the whole Facebook/Myspace thing. I don't feel like getting messages asking me to join your club.

There are enough people here who dislike Facebook that I think I'll start an I-hate-Facebook club. Care to join?

Depends. Do I need a Facebook account to join?

[inni]

ok.

maby if we can get 10,000 members facebook will stop.

[Unplayable Playable Character]

*Insert witty Facebook comment followed by smiley here*

 

[Dikiyoba]

Quote:

If you replace "club" with "Facebook group" there, I'm in!

—Alorael, who wants the message to reach the masses.

Are you sure that at an I-hate-Facebook Facebook group doesn't already exist?

Because Dikiyoba would be very surprised if one didn't.

[Slawbug]

I belong to a group called "People who are not members of this group"

[Lilith]

Originally Posted By: Romanization Tic

I belong to a group called "People who are not members of this group"

but do you shave yourself

[Alorael at Large]

I don't belong to a group called "People who are members of this group" and it's less paradoxical that way.

 

—Alorael, who isn't sure what to do about the group "For people who don't belong to any Facebook groups."

[Student of Trinity]

It's cool, but there's nothing actually paradoxical about belonging to a group called "People who aren't members of this group". It's just a misleadingly titled group.

 

In fact there is not even a paradox in a group which actually IS a group of people who aren't members of it, rather than simply being called that. The group could quite consistently exist, with zero members. Anyone claiming to be a member of such a group would be unambiguously wrong.

 

Paradoxical would be a group which actually is the group of ALL people who are not members of it. Unless, of course, there were no people.

[Celtic Minstrel]

I would say something, but Student of Trinity said it better than I could've.

[Dintiradan]

(I thought the original Barber Paradox was "The set of all sets that don't contain themselves as elements"; something difficult to do with Facebook as groups can't be members of groups. Is Student of Trinity referencing some other paradox, or am I out to lunch?)

[Alorael at Large]

A group implies more than one member, now, doesn't it?

 

—Alorael, who supposes a Facebook group has no such assumption. Lax terminology should not be tolerated. A Facebook group to deplore such things is needed!

[Swimmin' Salmon]

Not to brag on my mad Facespace skilz, but you need to be a facebook adherent to start a group, and (unfortunately) the act of creating the group places that person in the role of member. Sad really. I suppose a person could create a group, and then commit Facesuicide. Would that more people did those in the opposite order.

[Celtic Minstrel]

Originally Posted By: Dintiradan

(I thought the original Barber Paradox was "The set of all sets that don't contain themselves as elements"; something difficult to do with Facebook as groups can't be members of groups. Is Student of Trinity referencing some other paradox, or am I out to lunch?)

That is the Barber Paradox, yes; it would be S = {x : x not in x}.

The paradox mentioned above would be S = {x in U : x not in S}. It's not quite the Barber Paradox, but it seems like similar reasoning would be used to show that it is a paradox.