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[egypturnash]

I just got email from Yet Another Fucking Social Network inviting me to join. It said that I have three unread messages. On a social networking site I've never heard of. What the FUCK? This got my curiosity and I created an account. It already generated a stub account and put a 'welcome to the site!' account, and not one, but two messages about the fact that this person added me as a friend.

This is just really fucking creepy, somehow. And dubious - I wonder if they're counting these stub accounts with bogus messages waiting when they tell advertisers and investors how many users they have?

Thankfully it actually has a 'delete account'. *shiver*

Comments

[cryptodragon.livejournal.com]

Social networks are sucking more and more because they are trying to pull people in to thier little sandbox because they are only worth as much as the people in them. LJ is the only "social" networking I do because the people here are the people I want to talk to and it seems to be more productive than most by focusing on good writing.

[strredwolf.livejournal.com]

Jaiku?