The WORST most evil social networking site front EVER: Quechup
Post subtitle: The end of unsolicited invites
Do I now have a personal vendetta against Quechup? Yes.
The question is why?
All they did was ask to see who else from my contact list was in Quechup. So I obliged. I’ve done it with facebook and had no problem. I did it with Linked in and was pleasantly surprised. Instead Quechup does something different.
They spam your entire contact list without telling you they are doing so.
I thought that was SO CUTE, that I would post about how sad that is, that a social networking site would engage in such a practice to build their network. I even went through the steps that I had gone through a second time in order to see if I might have inadvertently check off: SURE EMAIL MY ENTIRE CONTACT LIST. I didn’t do that at all. But I suppose now my entire contact list will be invited again.
Why does it make me so irate? I don’t know. I only checked out Quechup because I was invited, no doubt through the same duplicitous practice. I am angry because I like to know who I have agreed to email. I don’t email forwards to people, I don’t mass invite people. And then this fecockt social networking site goes in and violates my principles to advance their aims. It sent emails to people’s cell phones, it sent emails to companies that I had reported errors or problems to, it sent emails to people I haven’t talked to in years. And I intend to show my gratitude as best as I can by alerting anyone I can, to avoid this site–because it is just a front for a spam operation, as far as I am concerned.
And guess what: Other people had the same problem: here, here, here, here, and here…
Ok, I have a new respect for how viral they are, and I wonder what other sneaky stuff they are up to. Gone forever is good will toward invites for me. Seriously. Keep that in mind other would-be-community-developers. New policy: I no longer accept unsolicited invites and will educate others accordingly.
September 2nd, 2007 at 3:02 pm
Yes. I felt like crying. :[
One thing that I found funny was that I was totally embarrassed about it and have spent the last 4 days doing damage control with the people that actually did signup.
However, I talked to a number of people that received the invitation from me and they thought nothing of it.
In fact, it’s allowed me to re-new my friendship with people I haven’t talk to in years.
Thank you, Quechup.
March 29th, 2008 at 12:10 am
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