Facebook is good if they've addressed wall spam issues already. I still don't think Myspace has addressed their spam issues too well and it's had them for much longer.

On Sunday, I had an e-mail alert about someone writing on my Facebook wall--a college acquaintance with whom I hadn't spoken in quite some time. As it turns out, I was a victim of "wall spam," a recent phenomenon on Facebook in which automated spam posts show up on members' message walls. It's similar to a wave of profile spam that swept News Corp.'s MySpace a few years ago.

 

The message in question read, "Some thinks you are special and has a hot^crush on you. Find out who it could be!! ;)" with a link to a Flash file claiming to be hosted on the imageshack.us domain.

 

But by the time I navigated to my Facebook profile to get rid of the spammy (and possibly virus-ridden) message--within an hour or two of the notification showing up in the first place--the wall post was gone. This means one of either two things: someone else saw the message on my profile and flagged it, or Facebook is actively policing the site to keep....

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