No, it’s not a new social networking game. Many Facebook users were subjected to pornographic and violent images that infiltrated news feeds across the globe as part of a coordinated spam attack.

Many of the pornographic posts spread just by clicking them, so apparently some were just too curious to resist the urge. The technique employed is called clickjacking. These fake links pose as regular Facebook posts, often coming from friends we would normally trust to only post good links. When clicked, a JavaScript command is executed, causing a user’s computer to perform a program that spreads the link even farther, potentially depositing malware along the way.

If it looks odd, don’t click it. Let your friend know via a separate message, and report all clickjacking to Facebook.