Attention all Facebook members.

Facebook is recently becoming very overpopulated,
There have been many members complaining that Facebook
is becoming very slow.Record shows that the reason is
that there are too many non-active Facebook members
And on the other side too many new Facebook members.

We will be sending this messages around to see if the
Members are active or not,If you’re active please send
to 15 other users using Copy+Paste to show that you are active
Those who do not send this message within 2 weeks,
The user will be deleted without hesitation to create more space,

If Facebook is still overpopulated we kindly ask for donations but until then send this message to all your friends and make sure you send this message to show me that your active and not deleted.

Founder of Facebook
Mark Zuckerber

Note: his was the third time I had received the message from someone in just two days.

I responded to the message with.

Its a fucking hoax, I’ve programmed systems similar to Facebook and let me tell you,

1) they don’t need to have you send messages to see if you are active

2) the information that you have on your account is so tiny, they could easily quadruple the amount of users.

3) physical data is stored in such a way that it would not slow down the servers, traffic would slow down the servers, but Facebook has literally thousands of servers to carry the load.

4) “Mark Zuckerber” is “Mark Zuckerberg”

In hindsight, what makes me most angry about this is not the chain letter. It is that my name shows up in the message header, even if I don’t respond. I only have around 50 friends on Facebook. I like to keep it to real life friends and because of this, I have my privacy settings turned to DEFCON 5 settings, where people can’t see me even if they search for me, and can’t friend request me (I have to initiate it). Now, people I don’t even know get to see me because of a friend who didn’t realize what he was doing, and careless programmers.

Update: I really am getting upset about this, I’m now getting messages (not nessessarily directed toward me) from the stoner kids from high school who are some of the best examples of people I don’t want to have associated with. There are some people that I’d rather not even know I have a facebook. But because of this privacy breach, yes I consider it that, they now can and are only a few steps away from somehow friending me. Here is the bottom line: I don’t want people knowing things about me online, even that I have a presence, unless it is my choice.