

We strongly recommend being careful with what apps you choose to install on your Facebook account. Oh, and don’t forget to delete the spammy posts it made from your timeline, too.

You can see this post was created by an App called Exclusive The post was made by an app called “ Exclusive.” Spammy apps are often to blame for spammy posts, and to stop the app making further posts, you need to go to your main Facebook settings, click Apps and find the offending app – from there you can click the X and select Remove to delete it. If this is the case, the app name appears at the top of the post you made. The chances are high that you clicked a link you saw appear on your newsfeed, was then asked to install an app to continue, which you did, and it’s that app that is posting from your account. If you’re seeing spammy links being posted from your account, the most popular explanation is that you’ve given a Facebook app permission to make such posts.

Why is my Facebook account posting spam, and most importantly, how do I stop it? However, if you think “computer hackers” have magically compromised your account, and you are nothing but an innocent and helpless bystander, you’d be wrong too!Ĭontrary to popular belief, if your Facebook account is posting spam by itself, somewhere along the line, you’ve done something you shouldn’t have. It can be very frustrating, especially since these unwanted messages are essentially spam, and you know that your friends will be able to see these links and they may think you are the one posting them.īut, of course, they’d be wrong. When your Facebook account begins posting unwanted messages or links by itself, then that’s a pretty good indication that there is something up that you’ll need to sort out. If your Facebook account is posting spam automatically in your name, we explain why it happens and how to fix it.
