May 19th 2009

Facebook have been working hard to repair the damage caused by hackers this week - but no one has noticed.

Earlier in the week over 200 million Facebook accounts were spammed with utter, tedious drivel but it would seem that it blended in with the day to day goings-on so much that users completely failed to realise what had happened.

Spokesman for Facebook, Barry Tone said "Users were poked, tickled, slapped, quizzed, puzzled and gifted by the spamming virus which used applications on user's friend's accounts to bombard the user. We had all sorts of odd goings on" said Barry, 13, "some of the messages that it left on the super-duper walls were frankly bizarre. On my own wall my mum appeared to have written 'Superman shat your goat.' "

Facebook has previously received criticism for its poor security and it's not the first time hackers have targeted the web site. The personal information of those who have Facebook accounts are highly attractive to Alistair McGowan and other identity thieves.

Barry told us "We've stopped the clean up operation until someone actually complains as we're having problems identifying the spam, and there have been cases of us removing stuff that was genuine. On one account we discovered a husband had posted 'I teabag unsuspecting business women' on his wife's wall which we hastily removed. We then found out it was deliberate and we had to reinstate it. She replied with 'I know, that's how we met darling xxx.' "

Our resident technogeek, Tom Bareen said "I don't know what's more pointless; the spam that was barely spam, the clean up when there was nothing to clean up; or Facebook."

"Actually I do - it's Facebook."