I keep getting friend requests on Bebo that I could probably block with a simple Regex. Names that don’t have any similarity to the users username, and a username that invariably is a name, a capital letter, and several digits.
It’s about all I get emails about from bebo anymore, and I see no real reason to log in except to decline all these requests.
There are at least 2 a week, usually more. I get similar spam followings on Twitter too, but it’s not quite so bad.
So maybe this should be addressed to Bebo, to clean up your site. And to the spammers, give it up. I’m not going to befriend your profiles, nor am I going to click any links therein.
Interestingly enough, I have a similar problem with Facebook. F’book runs extremely slowly on my computer and brings problems of its own (eg I cannot write on F’book – IF I want to, I have to type my message in a separate programme, then “copy & paste”). Meantime, Facebook is becoming a website full of stupid ‘applications’ which I have no interested in, yet people keep sending things to me and I end up with a load of emails asking me to “join this” or “try this” or “do you look like a clown or an idiot”. As if I care! I am almost ready to scrap facebook – I only ever log on if I want some information.
Hope life is improving for you over there Mr C.G.