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The return of my lost calculator + Facebook thinks I'm gay

Just great. Today I got my TI-83+ back after losing for 13 days. I am not happy about this at all. I spent all the money for TI-89 for nothing! I'm eating top ramen because I don't have money left after the purchase!
I don't know the full story, but someone in my school took it... and then it's taken by her boyfriend, then I saw him using it in chem class... so I asked, and I got my calculator back.

But I lost over $100 because someone just decide to "take" it.
I don't know what I'm suppose to think, be happy about finally it's returned, or angry about why it was ever taken away from me.

Oh the other hand, Facebook thinks I'm gay.
I was greeted with this ad when I opened my Facebook homepage.
Gay.com
Now I have to rethink about my life... what did I do made Facebook believe I'm perfect for the ad... and never do them again.
So I consulted people in Lilug

ronnote: Facebook has probably just tracked all the time you've spent looking for lesbians.
Mgccl: ....
ronnote: besides you can offer to let the girls try to convert you.
Mgccl: convert me to lesbian... hot...

Most sophisticated and dangerous Facebook spam spotted

Maybe you have seen a lot of spam on facebook. Messages and Funwall are usually where it stays. But, me, a really sophisticated person who used internet for half of my life, don't fall into spams, especially facebook messages and funwall, because with a little brain power, spam can be identified. A unknown person sending crap and funwall mass posting... ok, we get it.
But I never, ever expected facebook spam can be on my wall, the original facebook wall! Because I let my guard down, I finally fall for a spam.
This spam is not like normal spam, it's sophisticated spam. Please wait for explanation after reading my story.

Wall post:


hey... did you can almost get find anyone song available at http://got-served.com for you cell?

I will use "she" and "her" referring to the spam sending victim... for privacy sake(my blog is part of the mass media).
At first, I was a bit suspicious.
1. Initial response "What are you smoking?" The person who send it to me is the no.1 smartest kid in school, so those kind of grammar error is just.... shocking...
2. After visiting the URL, I found it redirect to another site, if I refresh, it shows another layout. The URL is a Doorway page, what spammers love to use. start to suspicious.
3. The wall post was posted at 12:24 pm today, I was with her at the AP chem class at that moment. Unless she uses her cellphone to post it, there is no other way. But seriously.. who would relies on me so much to actually use a cellphone to post a message like that?
But, I just don't believe there are something that can go into people's Facebook and post a wall post. I know no Facebook applications can do that.
So, I replied to the wall post with around 10 minutes of research across the internet.
And, to my surprise, 2 hours later, she told me that she never wrote the wall post.
I have been tricked by a spam! Nooo, that never happened in years!!! Not since the first time I clicked on a spam link!!!

After that, I start to do analysis(calculus!) on this spam.
First of all, I did some research, and found a forum post and a blog post with the same experience. The dates are really recent, so, not a lot of people noticed it yet.

Then, I wonder, how come this spam didn't get a lot people to notice, because usually, each user under the spammer's influence will send thousands of copies and...
The spammers are smart...
I'm the only person on her contact got this spam, in fact, I believe I'm the only person in my entire school got spammed.
So the spam isn't wide spread.
But why didn't the spammer send a lot? Spams like this can go maybe a few hours without wide notice, that can generated enough traffic to brighten those black hat customers' day.
Aha, on Facebook, a person can see who post on whose wall, so... 1000 same wall post can be easily spotted and suspected. "why all my friends getting the same(or similar) wall posts?"

She have over 100 friends, how come I'm the one to get the spam? is this spamming program smarter than I think?
Some hypothesis...
1. We have 29 posts on the wall to wall. the spam would assume I'm close to her and I'm more likely to pay attention to the wall post than others.
2. There are a few people with more posts on her wall... maybe it depends on how many characters are contained in total, I do write too much on walls...

This lead us to the worst possible conclusion.
Spammers are and capable to using your friends against you with a high chance of success1.
They have bring the unholy to the best social network ever...
I bet they are celebrating their success by drinking the blood of little children.

  1. 1. well...they always have been, but not on Facebook Walls

My first facebook application

WhatPulse for Facebook, is the first application I made for Facebook. It gains WhatPulse data and update Facebook profile. The application is for me to keep counting how many keystroke and mouse clicks I have done before I get a girlfriend.
WhatPulse for Facebook
I need 5 users so I can submit it to Facebook's Application directory.
Please help if you have time :)
thx in advance.

Just got into Facebook

Just created a profile on Facebok and imported my friends from my Email. It's amazing to know that around 26.3786% of the people in my school got it.
The user experience is much better than myspace(I don't use it anyway..) because it uses Ajax well.
In the technical perspective, Facebook's API rockz, especially after Facebook open sourced it's abstract backend system Thrift, which connects PHP, C and Java modules flawlessly, to developers world wide.
In the marketing perspective, open source of Facebook's fundamental architecture, greatly increases the exposure rate on social bookmarking and other social services like digg and dzone. BUZZ is always good.

But, "Poor people perspective" pursuits personal piss-off-tion. I need a cell phone to confirm myself so I don't have to fight those CAPTCHA used to stop BOTS! I don't have one and it's not likely I'm going to get one soon. Without add one of the people in my school as friend, I can't get into SWR's school network in Facebook. For me, this is enough to make me believe Facebook will not be a important part of my life.

I thought about posting this in my professional blog, but I posted it here so anyone who read this can add me in Facebook.

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