Stop Spocking Me

Posted on December 15, 2007
Filed Under Opinion |

I am starting to get emails from people I know asking me to join them on Spock.com. Spock is a spooky site that seems to want to harvest all kinds of information about people and aggregate it into one place.

The thing is I don’t believe that these people actually meant to invite me to join Spock. I know them on a somewhat casual basis and they have never asked me to join any social networking sites before. I suspected that some trickery was going on and it sees that there is evidence of evil actions under way at Spock.

it had a new ‘check for your friends’ feature that allows you to import your email address book and find people you know on Spock. Nothing overly odd there, lots of sites do this.

What’s not good, is how they misrepresented what they were doing.

I went ahead and had them check my gmail address book. It came back with ‘found X profiles on Spock, would you like to connect?’

Not invite, connect. At least, that was the implication (I don’t remember the exact phrasing).

Sure.

Well, it proceeded to send out emails to all those people with ME as the sender asking them to join Spock.

STOP SPOCKING ME! I’m going to start marking all email for Spock as Spam. Maybe you should too.

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