tag:,2008:/1/tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.2971- 2008-08-22T18:53:02Z Comments for From the Dept. of What Took So Long: MySpace Moves to Stop Spam Movable Type 4.1 tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.2971 2007-09-27T23:34:31Z 2007-12-16T23:08:06Z From the Dept. of What Took So Long: MySpace Moves to Stop Spam MySpace may have saved itself from being absolutely intolerable today when it added an option to require a CAPTCHA entry before sending a friend request. Every one's friend Tom announced a host of changes to MySpace this afternoon, most of which were aesthetic and likely to be of consequence only to serious MySpace users. For... Marshall Kirkpatrick http://www.readwriteweb.com Picture%2054.pngMySpace may have saved itself from being absolutely intolerable today when it added an option to require a CAPTCHA entry before sending a friend request. Every one's friend Tom announced a host of changes to MySpace this afternoon, most of which were aesthetic and likely to be of consequence only to serious MySpace users.

For the rest of us who keep accounts there primarily to facilitate discovery by old, non-technical friends - the new spam controls will probably be the only change that matters. What a change it is, though! If you've been tempted to cancel you MySpace account because you're tired of porn stars trying to be your friend (is it just me?) now you can log in and change your account settings to block automated friend requests. Sweet. What took so long?

]]> tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.2971-comment:24191 Comment from Alexis Brion on 2007-09-28 Alexis Brion http://www.designvsart.com/blog/ hehehe, not, is not only you receiving invitations from hot women. I still remember the first time I got an invitation like that... I almost believed it was true :/

Good to know that MySpace is doing something to prevent that.

]]> 2007-09-28T12:18:40Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.2971-comment:24192 Comment from Lee White on 2007-09-29 Lee White http://www.socialtext.net/ljw Too late. Canceled mine months ago.

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