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Ease up, Facebook

Ease up, Facebook by jgarber.
I was posting a link (to this rad Threadless shirt) to a friend's Wall over on Facebook and received the above message.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Navigate to friend's profile page.
2. Type them a nice little note, pasting in the link.
3. Press submit one (1) time.
4. Get your account disabled?

My guess is Facebook is trying to be too fancy for their own good with pulling in content from linked sites. They failed to get anything useful from Threadless (image or otherwise) and apparently the fallback case in the logic is to pop this error. Interesting.

Anyone else have a similar thing happen to them? 

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marchdoe  Pro User  says:

Let's face it though, would you really miss it, if this really does happen?
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

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Caleb Keiter  Pro User  says:

Can you show me how to get kicked off of My Space?
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

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You Blockhead  Pro User  says:

I just tried to paste a link to a Stereogum "article" on someone's wall and I got a similar message. It wasn't a spam warning, but it was something about the content it was trying to import being illegal. I ended up adding a space to the URL and telling my friend to copy the whole URL and remove the space. Sillyness.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

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jcarbaugh  Pro User  says:

I reported you for all the spam you send me.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

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kingkool68  Pro User  says:

That is a sweet Threadless Tee!
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

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