Facebook deletion hoax?

[momo355]

Hi Everyone

If you are on Facebook, you might have seen this in the past few days. I am just confirming with the Yahoo Answers community that this is a hoax. My dad is a computer professional and he said it is, but I wanted to get the opinions of others.

Subject: IMPORTANT!

This is a Chain letter! the Founder of Facebook made me do this so DO IT !

Facebook is recently becoming very overpopulated,there have been many members
complaining that Facebook is becoming very slow. Records show that the reason is
that there are many -active Facebook members and, on the other side,
many new Facebook members.

We will be sending this message around to see if members are active or not. If
you are active please send to at least 15 other users using Copy+ Paste to show
that you are still active. *Those who do not send this message within 2 weeks
will be deleted without hesitation to create more space.*

Send this message to all your friends and to show me that your still active and
you will not be deleted.

Founder of Facebook,
Mark Zuckerberg





Thank you for looking!

[Hannah =D]

Most definitely a hoax. I mean, if they actually had a problem with too many users, which they probably never will, they wouldn't rely on a message sent from user to user and how in the world would anyone even begin to figure out who hasn't sent it on?

So yeah, no way it is real.

[missygirl25]

Hoax...with a capital H...

Companies or businesses that are legit do not have their customers send out chain letters...also, if this were legit you would have heard about it in the media...an unprecedented way of doing business!
Don't buy into this crap. Your Dad is right about this and probably alot of other things.

[Hermie Butmar]

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[Nemrek]

Recently, chain letters have started to spread across Facebook with all sorts of misinformation. Let's get some information out there about how we communicate to you about Facebook. Right now, there are only four ways that we try to get information to users.

1. Home Page Announcements: Home Page announcements are the big boxes that push down your News Feed. These announcements contain information that we really want you to see; changes to your account, big new products we think you might like, and any information that is required for you to use Facebook effectively.

2. Product Stories and the What's New page: You may occasionally see stories about Facebook inside your News Feed. These contain useful tips and fun information about Facebook, but are not of the same importance as Home page announcements.

3. The Blog: Since you're here reading, you know what the blog is. This is a good place to get extended information about what's going on at Facebook.

4. Through Pages and Updates: This is fairly new with the launch of Pages, but notice that these will appear in your "Updates" section of your Inbox, not mixed in with messages from friends. These should be few and far between—the Update you saw from any Politicians you support that came from Facebook is a one-time occurrence.


We will never use any of the following methods to tell you information, or ask for you to take an action:

* Your Wall
* An inbox message from a friend—in other words, chain letters.
* Messages spread through Applications—if an application is telling you that Facebook is about to shut down, report it.


Since there's been a lot of wrong information about Facebook spreading around, we'd like to clarify a few things for the record:

* We are not shutting down accounts that are not "active" enough.
* We are not going to start charging you to use Facebook.
* We will never ask you to send us your password or login information.
* We will never ask you to avoid friend requests from a specific user. If a user is truly abusive, he or she will be removed from the site.
* We will never put the responsibility on YOU to send information to your friends. If we have information we need to share, it's our job to get the word out.
* When we do communicate to you about the site (with the exception of posts made on this blog) it will always be from a collective Facebook. You won't hear from me, personally, or from Mark, or from any of the Facebook bloggers you've seen here.


So the next time you see a chain letter, chain wall post, or chain anything, report it to our User Operations team, and tell all your friends to ignore it. We could make a joke here about passing this entry on to ten of your friends, but that's not cool.


Originally published December 17, 2007.