Facebook Spam On The Rise

Most of us use facebook on a daily basis and im pretty sure you are aware of the current scenario present in facebook. Facebook spam is definitely on the rise the amount of spam on a person's newsfeed is becoming a lot.
There was this one day in the last week or so when this problem became really bad wherein i got nearly 30-40 notifications on facebook and all of them being SPAM. My wall was full of it and i was afraid that friends who would visit my wall would click on it and spread it further. Facebook did eventually remove those posts automatically but it was after a few hours.
So its obvious that you need to be a lot more careful when clicking on links on your facebook new feed. These spam stuff comes in various forms :
1) some of them as status feeds of friends with a small link
2) some come even through chat
3) some come as a FAKE video
4) some come as an EVENT invitation and there are a lot of other ways to.

Here are a few tips to tackle these situations :
1)Make sure you read the status message of a friend before you click on the link posted by him , if you carefully see the language style he is used you can make out that your friend wouldn't really post such messages its not his way of expressing himself.
2)The same idea goes with the chat
3)Sometimes you think your going to open a video whereas that was just a FAKE video , basically a picture of a video frame with a "PLAY" symbol at the bottom , incase you find that sort of situation and your not sure of whether its a real video or not, just place your move over the LINK but DONT click on it , when you place your mouse over the link , you can see the complete URL thats when you can make out if its spam or not, if its going to some unknown site which looks shady then dont click on it , if it is going to a facebook video page or a youtube page then you can safely click on it
4)FAKE EVENT Invitations are pretty easy to handle , i guess its not difficult to realize fake event invitations as they are mostly stuff like FREE IPAD,FREE ANDROID or something of that sorts.
5)Whenever you see any wall post or message with a link saying you can win a FREE IPAD or anything else , it is mostly FAKE , but incase you feel there is a possibility of winning one , you could always google the domain name of the link first and see if it is legitimate and then proceed.

Hope these few tips will help you realize what spam is on facebook and be careful before you click on anything on facebook.