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Sorry To All My Apsense friends And Contacts
by Malok Mading Writer and Blogger. Recently this week, I logged into my Facebook account and the shocking thing was; I saw a message from one of my best friends.She was telling me how much she like a photo which I was tagged in with her.She did not know that I didn't tagged her in any of my photos and that I didn't sent it out to her or any of my friends.The claim was saying this message:
{Friend's name} I really love my new iPad2! playing angry birds on it is so fun haha! I received it today from fedex and I paid nothing which is pretty exciting :) They are only giving a limited supply in each area so I dont think this will last long. This is where I got it from, hopefully you can get one to http://tcrohngj.tcrohngj.a
There was also a tagged photo of an Ipad 2 in which I have tagged all my friends including the recipient friend telling the named friend of mine to take actions and get it free.
Well,what I worry most is the trust my beloved friends who might think that I did such a thing to them but I am totally speechless over this.
The way it is so complicated that it even got my names, friends' names as well as accessing my Facebook profile left me with more questions than answers.Currently,I have more than 4 hundreds friends who have receive this same "Photo Tagging thing"
To make it short,if you as my friend on Facebook has received this "Photo Tag" saying that Malok has tagged you in his photo,kindly please help me by reporting this to Facebook or delete it completely.
I have my principles and morals which define how I interact, contact and share with people around me including my friends.
Otherwise, I would like to caution others too to be careful lest such things might happen to them.
Facebook in recent years has been trying to fight spam and hacking but still this crook guys are still destroying people's name and image with such things.
So please, to any annoyed friend/contact believe me that I never intended to do you anything as this.
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About Malok Mading 
Writer and Blogger.
394 connections, 6 recommendations, 1,156 honor points.Joined APSense since, November 6th, 2010, From Nairobi, Kenya.
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Philippe Moisan
 Tutorial videos, sci-fi writerThanks for the info, Cheryl, I will be careful from now on. Is it a good idea to check the friend's profile? I guess what Malok's friend did was the wtg, i.e. make him aware of it. Jul 7th 2011 10:16 |
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Malok Mading
Writer and Blogger.@cheryl,thanks for the tip and feedback too.@Wincer,It is good that it is not here and if it does,the whole of this network will be down to crash and we won't have such a safe one like this on the net. To all,lets' make it a task to keep this place home and avoid future destruction! Jul 7th 2011 10:17 |
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Malok Mading
Writer and Blogger.@Phil,I even don't know what to tell my friends there to make it clear to them that I was not the one and that it a scam-spam messages. Jul 7th 2011 10:21 |
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Paula van Dun
RetiredI had no idea. I am not so often on Facebook. Thanks for sharing and warning other people. Jul 7th 2011 10:26 |
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Malok Mading
Writer and Blogger.@Paula,you are welcome.Facebook is ruining people if it continue to allow this. Jul 7th 2011 10:27 |
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Dave Gilbert
 Web EntreprenuerThanks Malok for your timely warning , i'm now checking my facebook profile for similar activity Jul 7th 2011 10:28 |
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Malok Mading
Writer and Blogger.@Dave,thanks for your feedback please.Hope a stitch in time saves nine.Make your friends aware of it if you haven't. Jul 7th 2011 10:34 |
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Cheryl Baumgartner
  Medical Billing/Coding/InsuranceIf you go to your FB account and click on settings and then notifications, you can turn off tagging for photos and videos. That way those 'notifications' (Spam links) will not show up on your profile and you won't click them. More importantly your 'nosy' contacts won't click on them either. Jul 7th 2011 10:34 |
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Malok Mading
Writer and Blogger.@Cheryl,that is a good hint.I will re-edit my profile soon and locked these things out of my profile. Jul 7th 2011 10:35 |
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Cheryl Baumgartner
Medical Billing/Coding/InsuranceJust remember this is FB and when they change something it tends to reset all of your settings to default Jul 7th 2011 10:37 |
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Malok Mading
Writer and Blogger.People comes first and follows by personal interest,if they can't allow one to remain with their default settings why bother themselves with privacy? Jul 7th 2011 10:43 |
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Philippe Moisan
Tutorial videos, sci-fi writerCheryl, one other thing that bothers me about FB is when something ( new apps ? ) ask that I not use https What do you think ? Jul 7th 2011 10:46 |
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Sherry Emma Simpson
Smart EntrepreneurI have deactivated the settings on FB for tagging with photos. So now things are much smoother. Thats the only to stay away from spam. Jul 7th 2011 11:40 |
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Muhammad Ichsan
Consultant of Lawsorry to bother that I hope so they will be oke Jul 7th 2011 12:03 |
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Cheryl Baumgartner
Medical Billing/Coding/Insurance@Phillipe any time you use an app it will change to unsecured log in. Supposedly if you log out then log back in it is set back on https. The apps don't use https because they are third party apps linking into FB Jul 7th 2011 12:18 |
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Philippe Moisan
Tutorial videos, sci-fi writerI don't think I use too many apps, gotta check this, thanks Cheryl Jul 7th 2011 12:21 |
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Mia Fatmiati
AffiliatemarketerNot to be in the tag application or photo / video that we do not want, set up a privacy account on the column right.You can choose who gets to tag or block application.Hope can help your fb. Jul 7th 2011 12:42 |
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Tricia (Patricia) Fahrendorf
 What a great article and good information. @cheryl, thank you for all the information about facebook safety. I am an avid facebook user to stay in touch with my family. I am also trying to make it a reliable business contact for my company. So all that you said is a big help to me. Thank you again. Patricia Jul 7th 2011 20:37 |
Don't click any link on FB saying you were tagged in a photo or video. This has been around on FB for a few years now.
Jul 7th 2011 10:06