social spamming
More Spam via MyBlogLog
I already had my run in with Jajah on Flickr, where the 'company' offered to be my fried and thus caused me to close my trial Jajah-Account. Now I have Jajah leave a visitor badge on my MyblogLOr roll in the sidebar: Jajah - MyBlogLog
Guys: It is called social networking', like in 'real people'. The Jajah-thingy does not stand for one of the funders but just has a blurb for the company in theur profile description (like the did in Flickr).
I also ot a guy namend 'Pornman' leaving his trace here. So this is the kinda company, Jajah gets themselves into.
If it is OK in Myspace to add people as frieds for bands or businesses, be it so. But anywhere else I'd call this: SPAM.
And: I want to have a 'block this person' and 'this is SPAM'-Button within mybloglog. Please.
Guys: It is called social networking', like in 'real people'. The Jajah-thingy does not stand for one of the funders but just has a blurb for the company in theur profile description (like the did in Flickr).
I also ot a guy namend 'Pornman' leaving his trace here. So this is the kinda company, Jajah gets themselves into.
If it is OK in Myspace to add people as frieds for bands or businesses, be it so. But anywhere else I'd call this: SPAM.
And: I want to have a 'block this person' and 'this is SPAM'-Button within mybloglog. Please.
OliverG - Do, 15.02.2007 14:31 - Kommentar verfassen - 2 Kommentare
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Seriously ...
I did NOT add you as a "friend" nor did I even join your "community" at MyBlogLog and this is becoming paranoid. I am NOT "leaving" a badge on your blog, this is how MyBlogLog works, you put the plugin in your blog, it shows the recent readers and if I read your blog, yes then I'll show up as a reader (because of a cookie). If you are telling me that I'm not allowed to READ your blog anymore, fine ...
My profile stands for REAL people, it's me and every "friend" can see all my personal contact details, I know these people/bloggers because of my job at Jajah (not as a personal relationship) and I'm in contact with my "contacts" at MyBlogLog, there is nothing wrong about it. If I read your blog as Frederik (personally) or as Frederik (at Jajah) I can not make the distinction all the time, deleting my cookies and logging out and in at MyBlogLog before visiting your blog and actually the effort would be a little too high.
People add me to their list of contacts/friends in Flickr, MySpace, XING/OpenBC, LinkedIn or MyBlogLog all the time, it often establishes new business relationships/contacts, this is social networking for me as Frederik at Jajah not necessarily as Frederik in private life. I'm not freaking out about it and I actually don't really get your problem or why you are taking the time to make this as big.
If you want to ban me as a reader of your blog, it's kinda weird but I can stay away from here if you want to.
You are more than welcome to get back to me by email or phone, we have been in contact before (see my email signature).
Have a nice weekend and best regards,
Frederik
Well
I do not 'target' Jajah in any way. I just see that Jajah is almost the only company acting that way. and I treat all companies alike, time allowing ;)
We already tried to talk about this and I had the distinct feeling that you did not (want to?) understand what my problem with this was.
I still have that feeling. So if you want to listen and understand: Fine.
If you want to tell me that my uneasy feeling of having COMPANIES (as 'persons') in social networks is plain WRONG... well you can't argue with feelings, OK? But you can try ;)
I perceive this as spam in most of the networks (I mentioned that it seems to be 'the way you do it' in Myspace...). And it happens to me almost on a daily basis now. And I am missing complaint-buttons in most networks.
You also know that E-Mail is almost unuseable because of people who think it is OK to bombard others with "valuable information".
You also know that some people find it OK to use the comment areas of blogs or their trackback function for 'marketing'.
I am sure you fully disapprove of those practises and would never use them for Jajah.
I think that THIS is the right time to talk about what is considered ethical behavior in *social* networks.
I am more than happy to talk with you about that.