[solox3]

You should also know when to stop emailing them.

I have received over twenty emails from Facebook, asking me if I know Tom Levesque, and to SEND him a friend request. Over and over, and over again. No, I don't know a Tom Levesque. I don't need to be asked the same question repeatedly.

[jsnell]

Right on.

A while back I logged into a Twitter account that had been dormant for a couple of years, since it appeared that some good friends had started using it more actively. As a result, I started getting email from Twitter once a week like clockwork. Clearly not a "our algorithms determined that something interesting happened" message, but a "our algorithm determined that you should get a message once a week, let's pick a random event from your social graph" one.

The main result is that I know better than to ever log in again and become a marginally engaged user worth spamming.

[codegeek]

Even better, facebook sends me email to my old email address asking to come back on fb when I am still on fb but with a new and different email address on the same account that I updated. Go figure!!

[epo]

This guy is easily impressed. I also get incessant spam from Facebook, it is one-note harrassment. The one variation I have is that it tells me about messages or likes from myself. Facebook is just sleazy and I am waiting for the inevitable backlash.

[jdbernard]

Yep. Facebook's flood of email did not get me back on board. It just got all of their email redirected by a rule to the trash bin.