Morning Commute: Facebook Spm

Is it just me, or has the whole Facebook community forgotten all its rules about phishing, spamming, and scamming? Recently, I've noticed an exponential amount of my friends posting ridiculous pieces of spam over everyones wall. Dear friends, word of advice, don't click anything on Facebook that looks like spam, offers you to let you see who sees your profile, or reveals sexy outlandish videos.

Two questions:

1. Are people getting these viruses through Facebook, or is there an external source (malicious links, downloads) that is affecting user accounts.
2. What is Facebook doing to stop this? There seems to be an obvious security flaw in Facebook that exploits user accounts. How much of our other data is exposed by this spam? Given many of us put our entire lives on Facebook, it's a bit unsettling to see these security flaws being exploited.

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