Warning: To all women who frequent bars and parties, now there is even more of a reason to watch your drinks. A new drug called Progesterex has been circulating along with Rohypnol, the date rape drug. It is slipped into the beverages of unsuspecting victims who are found the next day not only raped, but determined to be irreversibly sterile.

Does this caveat sound familiar? For those who compulsively visit thefacebook.com these words of caution may have appeared in a message forwarded by concerned friends. Upon further investigation, this "small sterilization pill," often used by veterinarians, was found to be nothing more than a hoax.

More accurately, it's spam. No matter what form it takes, or where it shows up, it remains undesirable. We don't want it mysteriously appearing on our plates, nor overwhelming our e-mail inboxes, and certainly not infiltrating thefacebook.com's messaging system.

A few weeks ago, after signing into thefacebook.com for the fifth time that day, (what if someone recently updated their profile?) I was thrilled to discover that I had several new messages.

Aside from receiving two copies of the Progesterex message from two unrelated friends from separate schools, there was one message lamenting the plight of helpless "Bonzai Kittens." Apparently some people are forcing kittens to suffocate in glass bottles until they decay, leaving behind the final product of their skeleton conformed to the shape of the bottle to be sold.

And yet another urged me to hop on board the "sexy train," officially declaring my status as a sexy person as long as I passed the message along to 10 other people - clearly I did, because who wants to run the risk of having bad sex for the next 30 years of their lives?

Instead of feeling popular, I was left feeling frustrated. I have never been a fan of receiving chain e-mail, always unwarranted, entirely too long, and usually sent by someone who I haven't even spoken with recently or maybe even forgot existed. Now I find myself fighting this losing battle on yet another front where I least expected it: thefacebook.com.

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