Image via Wikipedia Since the inception of social networking
sites, including Facebook and Twitter, people find new ways to
connect and stay in touch with, or reconnect with, old
classmates, friends, and distant relatives they have not seen or
heard from in years. Unfortunately, spammers, online predators,
and hackers have found new ways to spoil interrupt the enjoyment
of using these sites. The newly appointed FCC chairman, Newton
N. Minow, said the following about television on May 9, 1961, “I
can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland”.
Applying that idea to any site or individual on the Internet is
easy, when you consider those that conduct online activity for
the sole purpose of obtaining information about other users to
use in a variety of ways. Spam is any unsolicited message,
usually sent in bulk, to random email addresses or through
newsgroups, forums, and now social networking sites. Most
spammers do this simply because they can, and do, get away with
it. Most people set up a free