Interestingly, friends from my email contact list started sending me message asking if I sent them a message or "request" to join the site to which I said no. I began seeing friends joining WAYN. But when talking to one of my friends who had signed up after receiving an invitation from me that he had received from friends in his contact last asking if had sent them a message to join. Quickly, I decided to contact WAYN.
This is the letter I sent them:
Correction: "You should leave their contact lists alone"...(Line5).
A few days after I submitted this message, I got a reply back from WAYN. The email was a complete mess: WAYN blamed me for choosing an recommending option that resulted in the messages sent to friends to join WAYN, something I didn't really see at the beginning of the signing up process. This is their letter.
First explanation:
I am not sure what WAYN is talking about because the signing up process is just normal. And there is no reason for me to upload my contacts from hot-email or outlook. This is not related to my concern and WAYN is obviously dumb enough to think I should upload my Contacts this way to their website.
WAYN also stated that the "automatic" invitation is "aimed at giving" me the opportunity to "track your friends and family"? In fact, this is not an option or an opportunity that I agreed on in the beginning. I never asked WAYN to track my family. There's a difference between WAYN notifying me that a friend uploaded photos etc. and WAYN sending request to my friends on my behalf. This is absolutely ridiculous because WAYN flooded my email-contacts without my approval and it is not an option they give their members during the signing up process. They use this without the knowledge of their members. In addition to that, not all contacts in my address book are family members, yet they receive false notification from me.
In an interesting twist, WAYN stated that if I "add any further contacts either manually, or by using the import button, they will not be blocked from receiving invitations" ... WAYN trying to make the argument that because I added or imported friends to WAYN that they received request directly from their website. There are no import or uploaded buttons when someone signed up for WAYN. They simply took my contact list - in my opinion - and flood them with "invitation" to join their site.
Check this out:
This is a note one of my friends received from me the moment I signed up. All of my contacts received this request after I signed up and the same goes to my friends when they join WAYN. I also instantly received messages from them too, similar to this.
In fact, I didn't send them a message at all, but this WAYN's tactic is working because friends were joining WAYN in mass. Sadly, this is a huge exploitation and demonstrated just how ridiculous social networking sites had become. I joined social-sites such as "Bebo, hi5, facebook, Myspace" etc. but I had not seen such exploitation.
The competition between social networking websites had gotten extremely ridiculous that some of them resorted to tactics that average users rarely notice how these tactics exploited them.
If you consider Joining WAYN, remember this, WAYN will flood your contact list with invitations to join you on WAYN, something they do without your knowledge.
No comments:
Post a Comment