Facebook Like Spam - The bad and "good"

The Story

Got quite annoyed by the like spam on Facebook news feed. A lot of people were tricked to click on the spam links, and eventually got "hacked" to spread and auto-repost the link into Facebook news feed.

One one hand, I'm very irritated by those programmers who create all these apps to exploit the loop hole in Facebook.

On the other hand, it is VERY interesting to see what are your friends looking-at in Facebook world. I guess you can call this a "statistic" app to actually "infringe your friends privacy" and monitor your peer's activity/interest.

(Who to blame? Shouldn't Facebook take security measures on this immediately when this loop hole surfaces?)

Protect yourself

Here are few steps you should take note when browsing on the net (in general).

• Check the links before you click!
• If you really want to browse the pages that your aren't sure of the identity of the links, 
1. right click and copy the link.
2. browse the page in 
• IE: InPrivate Browsing,
• Chrome: Incognito Mode,
• Firefox: Private Browsing,
• Use HTTPS. (Not related to this topic, just remember its a good practice when you are the Internet, especially when you are in public area.)

Check the links before you click.

Internet Explorer - InPrivate Browsing

Chrome - Incognito Mode

Firefox - Private Browsing

Conclusion

So people, be smart! Learn how to protect yourself in the virtual world. Just exactly how your protect yourself in the real-world - Look left and right before you cross the street!