Sorry about that everyone. Sometimes I’m such a noob.
In my e-mail que this morning was an invite to reunion.com. It had been sent to me by an business associate. Being the Social Networking patsy that I am, I decided to go through the joining process. After registering, and avoiding the pay-to-play options, the website volunteered to search through it’s member database to see if any of my friends were already members. All I had to do was let it look at my g-mail address list. This seemed like a good idea at the time to my sleepy brain.
*sigh*
I unfortunately missed this little clause:
We’ll find your friends and family who are already members and also automatically invite any non-members to join (it’s free!).
I just failed the internet.
I also have a feeling that this “helpful feature” is going to create a lot of problems for reunion.com.
Update: as I expected the e-mails are beginning to flow into my inbox from folks who received the spam…
Hee hee. No worries, I figured it was something like that.
Okay, I don’t know you, but I was just doing a yahoo search to see if anyone had experienced the same garbage as me. Well, really I knew people had, but to see what others were saying about it.
At this point, I don’t even care about that clause… for Reunion.com now makes no sense whatsoever. If that is going to be their name, then why in the world would a user need to invite everyone in their address book. If they are in your address book, then apparently you have a contact to them, your friends or family, and you don’t need to be REUNITED. So stupid. Not to mention that not everyone in an address book (especially with Gmail) is a friend or family member. I had professional connections that were spammed and what makes me so mad is that it says the sender is YOURSELF. Augh! Ridiculous website. I signed up late at night, too.
Hi Matt,
I came upon your work via a common Linked in contact. Love to hear more about what your group is up to at RIT – maybe there’s a way to plug in to some of your learnings. who knows.
Drop me an e-mail some time. Be glad to come out to RIT to meet.
Matt