Added. Considering a return to Twitter?
 

Somebody stole my name on Twitter.
 

Ah, so that's what that was. (I was a bit surprised to get a friend request after not reading or commenting for about a year.)
 

I neither tweet or FB, but apparently you are supposed to automate the spam, making it easier for you to find a few hundred thousand of your friend's friends.

http://zemalf.com/1309/twitter-hit-and-run/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Zemalf+%28Zemalf.com%29&utm_content=Bloglines
 

Added. Took me by surprise, that one.

Planning to use social networks more in your work on the blog ?
 

One now sees the dirty secret of some "social" networks and games. Remember kids, spamming happens because it works. You may hate it, but someone out there will click on a link and make the spamming worthwhile.
 

Despite not maintaining an active presence on any social network I still get regular automatic email invites from people I might once have shared a brief correspondence with. Why is this type of spam not covered under anti-spam laws?
 

Aw, and here I was thinking I was special.