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> I get a lot of messages on Facebook, but unlike email, I have yet to receive any spam. That's pretty remarkable.

That is pretty remarkable. My Facebook experience is defined mostly by spam. Application spam, newsfeed spam ... etc

I was talking about the Facebook messages, which are very similar to email. The App invites are pure spam, so they can simply be ignored. Spam is only a problem when it gets mixed in with something useful.

And unlike email there is no way to automatically filter most of it.

There's a greasemonkey script called UnFuck Facebook, which does exactly that - It hides all app things and auto ignores apps sent to you, hides all Facebook ads and makes it look very clean in general.

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