How many times have you come across one of those silly Facebook groups: “Come on guys, let’s see if we can make this stale bit of cheese look more popular than this random celebrity whose music I don’t like anymore.”
Isn’t that a fun idea? Well, until you see how many other people have jumped on the bandwagon and set up groups with the exact same concept.
There’s a big problem with this, though. Spam.
Group owners can send mass messages to the members of a group. Who needs to go and buy a list of names and email addresses when you can just set up a group with a silly idea and get hundreds of thousands of people to join?
It might be wise to stop joining these groups unless you want to help marketers to spam you with junk.
About Ben
I never join those silly things. I don’t care if someone I don’t know stops smoking or not, etc. My liking them on Facebook or joining some group isn’t going to change anything except give me more junk in my social links.
Really, it’s not much different than all those email forwards. I guess this has become the new way to collect email addresses now that forwards have been drying up.
I don’t think it actually collects the person’s email address though, it just spams them on Facebook. Mind you, that seems to have replaced email for some people, so what does it matter!