Well, it’s happened.

Facebook has been hit with instant messaging spam.

Blast saw it first-hand when a friend who we haven’t talked to in a while randomly IM’d us about a “free” “giftcard” she’d “won” at a certain “website”.

We’ve gotten used to Facebook spam, with people’s accounts being hijacked to write on all their friends’ walls, but not this.

Nothing is sacred. Nothing is pure. You bastards.

John Guilfoil is the editor-in-chief of Blast: Boston's Online Magazine. He can be reached at guilfoil.j@blastmagazine.com.