Pornbook: All It Takes Is A Friend And A Newsfeed

If all of the issues with Facebook Beacon weren’t enough, today we learned that Facebook applications that your friends install can spam your newsfeed with porn. A CN Reader sent in an email chain from his conversation with Facebook after he received the following image while at work in his Facebook news feed. I blurred out the objectionable parts so it’s now safe for work.

The net result of the conversation below is that it seems if a friend installs a Facebook application which spams your news feed, you might have no recourse other than to de-friend the person. It seems the advice that Clive provides isn’t possible. (I’ve removed names/email addresses)

—–Original Message to Facebook—–
From: Person (member@member.site)
To: abuse@facebook.com (abuse@facebook.com)
Subject: NSFW image in news feed

An R-rated image showed up in my news feed, while I was browsing at work.

A screenshot is enclosed– below is the original html so you can extract the appropriate IDs, etc.

Thanks,
–Person

—–Message from Facebook—–
Hi Person,

Your inquiry relates to an application that was not built by Facebook. Unfortunately, Facebook cannot provide service for applications built by third parties. In order to contact the developer who created this application, please use the form found at:

http://www.facebook.com/help.php?app&app_id=255xxxxx

Facebook is not responsible for the support provided by this developer. If you continue to have problems, please note that you can remove and/or restrict applications from the "Applications" section of the Privacy page.

Thanks for contacting Facebook,

Clive
Customer Support Representative
Facebook 

—–Reply Message to Facebook—–
From: Person (member@member.site)
To: abuse@facebook.com (abuse@facebook.com)

I can’t ‘remove or restrict applications’ my friends have installed from spamming my news feed. And now it seems like I can’t stop my friends’ apps from spamming my news feed with porn! I have not installed the Movies application, so I can’t ‘restrict’ it.

I suggest you forward this to someone who is involved with the developer program; it may have more meaning to them.

– Person

Anyone have ideas for Person to make sure offending images no longer appear in his news feed?