Recently, chain letters have started to spread across Facebook with all sorts of misinformation. Let’s get some info out there about how we communicate to you about Facebook. Right now, there are only four ways that we try to get data to users.

1. Home Page Announcements: Home Page announcements are the big boxes that push down your News Feed. These announcements contain data that we really want you to see; changes to your history, big new products we think you might like, and any data that is called for for you to use Facebook effectively.
2. Product Stories and the What’s New page: You may occasionally see stories about Facebook inside your News Feed. These contain useful tips and fun info about Facebook, but are not of the same importance as Home page announcements.
3. The Blog: Since you’re here reading, you know what the blog is. that is a good place to get extended data about what’s going on at Facebook.
4. Through Pages and Updates: that is fairly new with the launch of Pages, but notice that these will seem in your “Updates” section of your Inbox, not mixed in with messages from friends. These should be few and far between—the Update you saw from any Politicians you support that came from Facebook is a one-time occurrence.

We will never use any of the following methods to tell you data, or ask

for you to take an action:

• Your Wall
• An inbox report from a friend—in other words, chain letters.
• Messages spread through Applications—if an application is telling you that Facebook is about to shut down, report it.

Since there’s been a lot of wrong knowledge about Facebook spreading around, we’d like to clarify a few things for the record:

• We are not shutting down accounts that are not “active” adequate.
• We are not going to start charging you to use Facebook.
• We will never ask you to send us your password or login knowledge.
• We will never put the responsibility on YOU to send knowledge to your friends. whether we have info we need to share, it’s our job to get the word out.
• When we do communicate to you about the site (with the exception of posts made on that blog) it will always be from a collective Facebook. You won’t produce out from me, personally, or from Mark, or from Dustin, or from any of the Facebook bloggers you’ve seen here.

So the next date you see a chain letter, chain wall post, or chain anything, report it to our User Operations team, and tell all your friends to disregard it. We could build a joke here about passing that entry on to ten of your friends, but that’s not cool.

Carolyn is Facebook’s resident blogger.