Chad Kimball's Crusade Against Shoe Spam
Chad Kimball's Crusade Against Shoe Spam
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#1Chad Kimball's Crusade Against Shoe Spam
Posted: 6/12/12 at 9:54am
Apparently, shoe-spamming has become a "legendary scourge" on Facebook!
Gawker
#2Chad Kimball's Crusade Against Shoe Spam
Posted: 6/12/12 at 10:11amChad is really putting himself out there lately- you can currently see him naked in "Murder in First" at 59e59!
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#2Chad Kimball's Crusade Against Shoe Spam
Posted: 6/12/12 at 10:16amI've never heard of this shoe-spamming, nor have I known anyone this has happened to. Is this a big problem?
#3Chad Kimball's Crusade Against Shoe Spam
Posted: 6/12/12 at 10:20am
Chad is making lots of videos lately and really hamming it up. He does make me laugh though. He's very funny. I love when he talks about Sondheim and Bernadette Peters being "shoed".
The shoe spamming is awful. I hate it!!!!!!
#4Chad Kimball's Crusade Against Shoe Spam
Posted: 6/12/12 at 10:28amShoe spamming really is a huge problem lately.
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#5Chad Kimball's Crusade Against Shoe Spam
Posted: 6/12/12 at 10:30am
Huge problem. I get about 10 of them a day.
It's obnoxious as hell and Facebook should be able to control it, somehow.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#6Chad Kimball's Crusade Against Shoe Spam
Posted: 6/12/12 at 10:32amWow, I can't believe I'd never heard of this before!
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#7Chad Kimball's Crusade Against Shoe Spam
Posted: 6/12/12 at 10:41am
They sem to come from pages of people with huge followings. The more famous you are, the more likely they will use your name in the spam.
Besides, the shoes are freaking ugly.
#8Chad Kimball's Crusade Against Shoe Spam
Posted: 6/12/12 at 10:42amHas happened to me a lot. It's just so annoying...mostly cause the shoes are just plain ugly.
Tom1071
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/1/04
#9Chad Kimball's Crusade Against Shoe Spam
Posted: 6/12/12 at 10:46am
I have received some twice in the last month. A couple of friends had their Facebook accounts hacked.
Updated On: 6/12/12 at 10:46 AM
#10Chad Kimball's Crusade Against Shoe Spam
Posted: 6/12/12 at 10:58amSome people with huge followings actually had to start over from scratch due to the hacking. Its awful.
#11Chad Kimball's Crusade Against Shoe Spam
Posted: 6/12/12 at 11:17amAt the same time I've been spammed with the shoe thing, my facebook acct has been frozen due to "suspicious activity". I get an email from them saying my account was accessed from the Philippines and if that wasn't me that did that I need to change my password immediately. It's happened three times in the past two months and it's annoying as hell.
#12Chad Kimball's Crusade Against Shoe Spam
Posted: 6/12/12 at 11:20amFacebook is becoming more trouble than its worth. Are they trying to alienate all its members. What annoys me is everytime someone comments on an old post, it re-enters my feed!! ARRRGHHH!!!
#13Chad Kimball's Crusade Against Shoe Spam
Posted: 6/12/12 at 11:21amOh, and the thing with "starring" your favorites? DON'T DO IT! You get four thousand notifications a day!!!
#14Chad Kimball's Crusade Against Shoe Spam
Posted: 6/12/12 at 11:26am
I did it Jordan. I learned the hard way. 
#19Chad Kimball's Crusade Against Shoe Spam
Posted: 6/12/12 at 4:22pmI was not a fan of his performance in MEMPHIS or the show for that matter, but I do think he is a very talented man.....and really really cute. I am embarrassed to say that I may go see MURDER just for the nudity. shame on me
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Joined: 12/31/69
#22Chad Kimball's Crusade Against Shoe Spam
Posted: 6/12/12 at 4:30pmSo was this supposed to be a joke or entertaining or what? I saw this on Gawker and immediately said "Finally, Chad found something worse than Memphis. Hockadoo!"
#29Chad Kimball's Crusade Against Shoe Spam
Posted: 6/12/12 at 5:20pmRobbie overacts but it's in the same way Anthony Hopkins overacts...Expertly.
#30Chad Kimball's Crusade Against Shoe Spam
Posted: 6/12/12 at 7:12pm
And with that, Mr. Catalano has earned a Dlisted 'I'd hit that.'
And I don't even know what he looks like!
#32Chad Kimball's Crusade Against Shoe Spam
Posted: 6/12/12 at 8:32pmI think he's adorable. I'd hit it in a heartbeat!
#21Chad Kimball's Crusade Against Shoe Spam
Posted: 6/13/12 at 12:58pm
I get about 3-4 of them a day. They get access to the accounts of performers or writers or people with at least 2,500- 10,000 friends or fans and they tag large groups of those friends or fans. The shoe pictures then appear on their pages, so their friends can inadvertently click on them, thus spreading the virus.
Once you click on it, it raids your address book. No one knows if that's all it does or if it installs a trojan virus in your computer.
I keep reporting them to Facebook, clicking on "violent" or "hate speech" and then delete them.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#22Chad Kimball's Crusade Against Shoe Spam
Posted: 6/13/12 at 1:40pm"Shoes" and "violent" put me in mind of Dawn Davenport on Christmas morning.
#23Chad Kimball's Crusade Against Shoe Spam
Posted: 6/13/12 at 1:43pm
I think that's what I had in mind, subliminally.
I could also have chose "sexual or suggestive" but I didn't want to give the shoes that much credit.
#24Chad Kimball's Crusade Against Shoe Spam
Posted: 6/13/12 at 1:58pmWow, Robbie -- once, you were the star of this thread, but suddenly, it's like you're Coco in the syndicated version of The Golden Girls' pilot!
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