Yes, I agree, Ed. I believe that the trust in social networks will definitely take a hard hit as a result of this situation.
I appreciate that you give the company some "benefit of doubt" by suggesting this could have been an error in programming. If it is such... it surely should have been caught in alpha and not released until fixed. But, stranger things have happened.
I will not be using the service as you well know by now.
Karen Cardoza (aka MrsB)
· 2 years ago
Exactly, Ed! As I mentioned on CC's blog, I tend to trust things that come from those that I trust. Lucky for me that I was busy and just starred the item to go back to later when I had time to actually "read" my email. (I still may not have ended up getting duped when I looked further into but you never know.) I trust someone like CC implicitly and would subscribe (or probably buy) anything that someone like him recommends. I think that I'm not alone in that thinking and many of us on Twitter feel the same.
John Whiteside
· 2 years ago
I must have trust issues; I assume that people I know are not as careful as they ought to be with these things, and my usual reaction to ANY "join me on bingbangboom.com" message is "why did he/she do that? how annoying." If it's not a personal message telling me why I might be interested in something, I assume it's some spam-my-address-book junk.
So I guess I don't see much trust to lose; I'm just amazed that people would be inviting others to a social network they have participated in for minutes. A personal recommendation should be meaningful; I make habit of not recommending anything till I've used it for weeks or months.
User choices can erode trust as easily as bad faith actions like Quechup's.
admin
· 2 years ago
Agreed John. There are too many people with bad intentions out there.
Personally, I NEVER sign up for a service with an email account I actually use. I have had a Netscape account for years that simply serves as my junk account. I even have Facebook point there. I guard my email account. I even spent some time last week to hunt down people that posted my address online after I started getting a slew of spam.
Lesson, always use a junk address, and never agree to have a service scrape your current account unless you have extreme trust in it.
Matthew Ebel
· 2 years ago
It doesn't crack my trust... I never trusted invites to begin with. Needless to say, though, Quechup is spam.
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I appreciate that you give the company some "benefit of doubt" by suggesting this could have been an error in programming.
If it is such... it surely should have been caught in alpha and not released until fixed. But, stranger things have happened.
I will not be using the service as you well know by now.
So I guess I don't see much trust to lose; I'm just amazed that people would be inviting others to a social network they have participated in for minutes. A personal recommendation should be meaningful; I make habit of not recommending anything till I've used it for weeks or months.
User choices can erode trust as easily as bad faith actions like Quechup's.
Here is a great follow-up post by PW Fenton. http://digitalflotsamwp.podshow.com/?p=153
Personally, I NEVER sign up for a service with an email account I actually use. I have had a Netscape account for years that simply serves as my junk account. I even have Facebook point there. I guard my email account. I even spent some time last week to hunt down people that posted my address online after I started getting a slew of spam.
Lesson, always use a junk address, and never agree to have a service scrape your current account unless you have extreme trust in it.
Pax,
Matthew