Facebook's First Big Chain Letter?!

Okay, so I haven't blogged here in a long time - I've been over blogging at the Centre for Digital Media and photoblogging it up on my flickr...

But I couldn't wait to share what I encountered last night, through to this afternoon (and I bet it's not over).
A family member who I trust, sent me the following message using facebook's messaging system. I could also see that they had sent it to many of their friends in a mass message.

" Attention all Facebook members.
Facebook is recently becoming very overpopulated,
There have been many members complaining that Facebook
is becoming very slow.Record shows that the reason is
that there are to many non-active Facebook members
And on the other side too many new Facebook members.
We will be sending this messages around to see if the
Members are active or not,If you're active please send
to 15 other users using Copy+Paste to show that you are active
Those who do not send this message within 2 weeks,
The user will be deleted without hesitation to create more space,
If Facebook is still overpopulated we kindly ask for donations but until then send this message to all your friends and make sure you send
this message to show me that your active and not deleted.

Founder of Facebook
Mark Zuckerber "

I received it 4 more times before I started receiving responses questioning the authenticity of the message. And they keep coming. It made me chuckle, and it's the first chain letter on facebook I've ever been sent. It reminds me of the first time I received crazy emails when I first started using the web.

Here a comment I enjoyed from the discussion:

"Attention all Facebook members.

Do you really think that they can't tell if your account has been used? And that their method of checking would be to ask people to forward a message? Do you really think that an official mailout would have misspelt "you're", or used so much informal language?

Every day, spam wastes millions of megabits per second all over the internet.

Please, think of the megabits. Think before forwarding.

Cheers,
Not A Founder Of Facebook"


PS: I am not passing the letter on. Lulz. What's next?