Facebook bug spams users

Facebook bug spams users
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  • Facebook has accidently reactivated email notifications for some users who have opted out of receiving emails of their actions on the social networking service.
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Facebook has accidently reactivated email notifications for some users who have opted out of receiving emails of their actions on the social networking service.

Normally users get an email from Facebook when a picture of them is tagged or a friend request is sent, but when people post comments users have the option of deactivating email notifications. These notifications have been accidently activated.

On Facebook's known issues page, the company posted, "Email notifications: Some people are suddenly receiving email notifications for settings they had turned off, and the checkboxes are now checked. We are currently working on a solution to this problem."

At the time of writing this article, more than 400 people had voiced their concern on this page.

According to user John Maher, "The issue isn't so much that you turned on my email notifications, but that I cannot turn them off. I unclick, SAVE, and they're still there."

Another problem users faced was spam mail from various Facebook apps. These apps have the tendency to spam the users with a lot of unnecessary mails but users have the option to not receive those mails. That was not to be, as many users were bombarded with a truckload of Facebook spam.

User Lisa Antunes says,  "geez what is going on with FB picture tag spam attacks, bogus event invites, number of pending notifications remaining after viewing all of them getting really old".

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