Lyk if u cri al da taim: Why liking "Likewhores" is making them rich - Polidicks

[IMG]http://www.googlemodules.com/image/screenshot/616E1387-0F01-2E1C-74C2-A98F49606F8F.jpg[/IMG] [img]http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/Z.tdUpX0RXEXEHUtLAtFjw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Y2g9NTEwO2NyPTE7Y3c9ODQ4O2R4PTA7ZH k9MDtmaT11bGNyb3A7aD0zNzk7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://l.yimg.com/os/251/2012/10/24/bear-jump2-jpg_143043.jpg[/img] [URL]http://uk.news.yahoo.com/facebook-spam-scam-secret-revealed.html[/URL] [QUOTE]Facebook users who've clicked viral links such as 'Click This if You Hate Cancer' could be in for a nasty surprise. The links - and others such as 'click this picture and see what happens' do nothing except make cyber-scammers rich. Once the pages have collected huge numbers of 'Likes', they are then sold, for cash, to other businesses who use them to make their page appear popular. A blog post by Daylan Pearce, a search-engine expert at Next Digital in Melbourne, explains how the nonsense posts scam works - and shows how the pages are sold on. [Related: How 'sexy' photos on social networks are stolen and reused ] The posts - images with captions such as 'Like if you can see the tiger,' or 'Comment and see what happens' are used to build 'Likes' and 'Comments' for pages. Once a page has collected thousands of likes and comments, it will appear higher in people's News Feeds on Facebook - 'Likes' are the 'currency' of the site, as it were. Pages with 100,000 likes can be sold for $200, according to adverts unearthed by Pearce. Pearce explains in a blog post, 'The Facebook Like algorithm is Facebook’s way of dictating if content is of any value to users. The more likes/shares/comments it gets, the more exposure to certain people it, and the profile it belongs to, will get both short term and long term. 'All these metrics contribute to a users ‘edge rank’ – the score your profile is given that dictates how your page interacts with other profiles on Facebook. ' 'Within 3 days a post like this one has 70,000 likes, and someone somewhere is about to make a nice little profit by selling the page to a business wanting some quick wins. The buyer then changes the page details.Instant fanpage with a big following, lots of likes and an in depth edge rank. David Emm, senior security research at Kaspersky Lab, says, 'Social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter are increasingly becoming targets for cybercriminals. 'The main reason for this is the trust that people feel whilst socialising with their friends online. People are much more likely to click on a link shared by a friend, and this inherent trust is something cybercriminals prey upon.' 'Over the past 10 years, we’ve seen incredible growth in the amount of personal information people will voluntarily share, and cybercriminals have naturally ‘followed the money’ by creating scams specifically targeting social networks.' [/QUOTE]

Thats genius.

I never knew people can actually make money off this shit

Sweet

So my likes didn't feed the poor children in Africa?

[QUOTE=Kirbyfactor;38219913]So my likes didn't feed the poor children in Africa?[/QUOTE] I've cured cancer like 100 times now

Every time you press Like, Marx turns in his grave.

I was wondering why some pages post really unrelated shit.

Just another reason why I don't 'like' anything.

I want to capitalize on superstition, "Like this for good luck" or something like that.

This seems really bizarre that something as worthless as a facebook page can actually be sold. But brb making some like this if you want paedos to be lynched pages!

[QUOTE=TonyP;38219939]Just another reason why I don't 'like' anything.[/QUOTE] I 'like' the stuff my friends post, but that's about it

theres always a purpose in these things. People arent doing it for fun, theyre doing it for something right? Why would you waste 2 hours of your life to get likes on facebook? (ok, maybe youre a real whore if you just want the likes), but its the same thing as those annoying ads around, like " Oh insert your e-mail and we'll give you a fucking airplane that flies to Mars!", they just collect your email and then give these huge e-mail lists to other people so that they can spam you

These 'Like if you {...}' are really getting dumber by the day First i had one with 'Like if you remember this!' with a picture of Toy Story 1 box art. Like, what? :v:

[QUOTE=markg06;38219960]This seems really bizarre that something as worthless as a facebook page can actually be sold. But brb making some like this if you want paedos to be lynched pages![/QUOTE] There is a shit-ton of money in marketing and Facebook is an absolute goldmine for advertisers

[QUOTE=laserguided;38219894]Thats genius.[/QUOTE] not really, people have been gullible enough to click random shit since 1998.

I don't understand how this is "cyber crime".

I made awesome posts on Facepunch, got rated winners then sold my account. Instant cash? (Rate optimistic if u cri evry tyme)

Facebook also doesn't let you block those people. It will say that it's overloaded which is bullshit because you can still block other people fine.

[QUOTE=mobrockers2;38220128]I don't understand how this is "cyber crime".[/QUOTE] There's nothing wrong with advertising and it's pretty much unavoidable these days... [editline]28th October 2012[/editline] but this is a case where people don't think before clicking links.

Wow, and i thought this was generally known by most people :v:

[QUOTE=DrogenViech;38220181]Wow, and i thought this was generally known by most people :v:[/QUOTE] I think most sane people knew it was a scam of some sort, but not how they actually made money from it

[QUOTE=DrogenViech;38220181]Wow, and i thought this was generally known by most people :v:[/QUOTE] facebook probably gets a cut of the profits made by imbeciles clicking links.

Kinda sad how some guy can make $200 by making 100,000 idiots press a button while other people have to work their ass off for that much money.

[QUOTE=AK'z;38220204]facebook probably gets a cut of the profits made by imbeciles clicking links.[/QUOTE] That's why you can't block those people.

[QUOTE=laserguided;38219946]I want to capitalize on superstition, "Like this for good luck" or something like that.[/QUOTE] Wouldn't surprise me if it worked. That's how most chain letters worked. Usually ended with something like "IF U DONT SEND THIS TO 'X' PEOPLE WITHIN 'Y' TIMEFRAME, YOU WILL HAVE BAD LUCK 4EVER". And retards ate it up. I used to get bullshit letters like this from my friends all the time; they would keep making wishes about dumb shit and then they'd be afraid that they wouldn't come true unless they sent it to as many people as possible, all because some random email (seemingy written by a dyslexic aspie if the writing is anything to go by) told them they would get cursed by witches or some shit. Moral of the story: people will believe fucking anything.

So how do I start doing this

but i liked it in 3 seconds, does it still mean I love my grandma?

[QUOTE=fruxodaily;38219915]I've cured cancer like 100 times now[/QUOTE] It's actually funny. You don't exactly cure cancer.. Cells [i]grow[/i] cancerous, and that's something you can [i]avoid[/i]. Avoid getting asbestos micro-fibers caught in your lungs, avoid breathing smoke, avoid being exposed to high-energy radiation. Kind of extreme examples but you get the point. So basically, we have the cure for cancer. Well, sort of. We know very well what sort of things cause cancer the most.

[QUOTE=Gekkosan;38220536]It's actually funny. You don't exactly cure cancer.. Cells [i]grow[/i] cancerous, and that's something you can [i]avoid[/i]. Avoid getting asbestos micro-fibers caught in your lungs, avoid breathing smoke, avoid being exposed to high-energy radiation. Kind of extreme examples but you get the point. So basically, we have the cure for cancer. Well, sort of. We know very well what sort of things cause cancer the most.[/QUOTE] Actually it can´t always be avoided, I knew someone that didn´t smoke, didn´t drink, he was vegatarian, and he sported everyday, he had an overal good health. He died of cancer aswell.