Are people trying to hack my Facebook account?

Most of the random ones from women are sex advertisers or spammers or identity thieves (something similar happens on Twitter as well). Lots of people are trying to use the social networking sites to further their “ambitions” or to make money. There is no end to the degree spammers will go to try to infiltrate your personal information. You can simply ignore them like I do, or report them. It’s up to you.

Do you play facebook games?

This has some good information about what people can and cannot do through facebook. At the most, people can get on and send things you don’t want sent and all kinds of inconvenient things if they get your password… but you need only change your password to claim it back.

Just keep ignoring them if you don’t know them.

I do ignore them, but I was wondering if I were alone.

I’m having a similar problem in my network of friends. Someone has gotten into a few people’s accounts and is sending messages that have bogus links in them. My DNS automatically blocks them, but they apparently take you to a fake video, which then asks you to install a fake Flash player, which is a virus. If you’re having this problem, change your password and security question, run a virus scan, and tell all your friends to do the same. If you’re getting strange friend requests notify Facebook staff.

Actually I’ve noticed it’s been happening to me too. I’ve probably had it happen 3 or 4 times that I got a request from women with mildly sexy photos, whose faces and names I don’t recognize.

One time I messaged the girl and asked if we had met. (No answer). Another time I messaged a “mutual friend” and asked if they knew the person. The response: No!

I don’t know what they’re going for, but they’re definitely creepy.