Just checked my Facebook and two friends who hardly ever post have suddenly both updated their status extolling the virtues of some dieting pill - and both commented on their own status minutes later with the same reply! Is this somebody hacking their account or do Facebook allow companies to spam inactive accounts?

It's a spam type thing.

You click on it, it asks for various permissions, including the permission to post as you (Same thiing as you get when you get a high score in a game) and then it posts those messages out. I'm guessing there is another message underneath saying how good it is?

Watch out for the next generation of these, they'll allow a post from another compromised machine to reply to the first.

Yeah noticed that with a mate today - asked if he had been Fraped and seems he was.

I bloody hate the word 'frape'.

FB users should be more concerned about Timeline Just think of old those scary bosses' narks, trawling through old FB posts

FB users should be more concerned about Timeline Just think of old those scary bosses' narks, trawling through old FB posts

Set your privacy levels correctly and you're safe from that.

You're even safer if you don't post inflamatory statuses in the first place.

I try not to use facebook as much anymore. If I do I'm very careful about what I write on there. I found out the hard way how that website can be used against you. It's quite worrying the amount of personal info that people share without even thinking about the people who could be reading/using it.

I got threatened with a defamation suit, all because I said I'd sooner "friend" Peter Sutcliffe (yes there are a few, including his "tool shed"), than the idiot in question.

Your even safer if you don't use facebook at all