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Yes, because "I quit being a database entry and started being a human again" is far more spammy than "please help me tend to my virtual farm."

/sarcasm

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"sends it to all of your Facebook friends" implies, to me, that every single one of your friends gets a wall post. That means a notification, which they have to click on to discover the content.

Farmville lets you send invites to all your friends. But I assume you have a choice about it - invite all your friends, or none, or choose some to invite. And it's always one of those "you have an X invitation" things which you can ignore because you know the content without looking.

lol!

Hey in yovile you gota send messages to friends for cash. So... What everyone winds up doing is sending "asd" messages to everyone on their friend list every day.

Sure, thats not spam, its "asd".

one feature I just found out about & feel compelled to share with everyone I encounter is that you can ban entire applications from your feed. you just click the hide button and you have the opportunity to ban either a user or an app. ban the app & you still see that person's updates, but nothing about their silly farm.

after a couple days zapping spam, facebook becomes about 100x more compelling.

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