Do Not Share Those Facebook Spam Videos

A man swallowed by the biggest snake ever! Two girls fight in public! A rumored Sex Scandal of a celebrity! and some videos that might interest facebook users to click them and watch. But as you go through and tried to watch those so-called interesting facebook videos who shared by your friends it will redirect you into their website where you are asked to share it also so that you can fully watch the video. But that was actually a sort of trick to fool those facebook users who are not familiar with online spam advertising, where they invite you to share their videos but you cannot really watch them you only click them and you created traffic to their website where they earn money as you visit.
It is like an internet epidemic where users pass it to other facebook users as well, like we say I have 1000 friends on facebook and I shared that spam video link the possibility would be around 1-10% of my friends would try to click that also and share it and those 1-10 percent do also have friends right? The sharing of those videos will continue to spread, and the internet sharing would be like a disease to all of facebook user's timeline. In some situation there are spam video where it causes some trouble on facebook user's timeline where they cannot delete it and it just stays there and some would consider it as virus, but you can actually delete it from clearing the extensions from your browser.

This is an example of those spam videos that causes trouble to a facebook user but gives a lot of traffic(or visitors if you prefer) to the owner of the site.

screenshot from my facebook news feed

It is not a video actually but it is a photo on some cases, you can notice that it is spam if it is accompanied by a link and you are being redirected to the page where it ask you to share the facebook link and when you do so there you are being fooled by these spammers, see the image below where you tried to play that video it asks you first to share it to your timeline.

screenshot from my facebook news feed

When you share it the problem starts there, and in worse case some spam videos again ask the user to install a file, like a javascript or a flashplayer for him to be able to watch the video, do not ever do that! You are risking your device, do not ever download and install those files because it will cause your browser some trouble specially when you do not know how to fix them.

So for your own sake do not share those spam facebook videos, instead share this news to your friends and be very careful next time.

top photo credit to John Lusher from http://webuildbuzz.com