On Fri, July 13, 2007 7:53 am, Robert Cummings wrote: > On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 23:51 -0500, Richard Lynch wrote: >> It's gotten to the point where I pretty much view social networking >> sites as just another form of spammers... >> >> I blogged about it, and would like feedback from members of this >> lists, for various reasons I would hope would be obvious. >> >> PLEASE put responses in my blog, or your blog, or whatever, but not >> here, as I'm sure this thread could be quite annoying as it has >> minimal to zero concrete PHP content. >> >> http://richardlynch.blogspot.com/ > > I didn't feel like logging in so I'll post my comment here: > > The whole idea behind a social network is that you can socially > network... as such inviting your friends is a great approach. I use > facebook and from time to time I do indeed invite my friends. The > problem you are experiencing is abuse of the feature. You have > entities > outside of what you would call friends that are hitting you up for a > connection. The solution to this really should be the opportunity to > register your address with the social network such that you will no > longer receive requests.
Which you will note was in my proposal... But I think it should be a "standard" to have such a link in every invite email, so one doesn't have to go digging through a site to try to find a way to contact somebody who runs the site to ask for a total ban on their email. I blew at least 10 to 15 minutes the other day trying to find a way to get through to Facebook, for example. They have that annoying practice of not actually providing a contact email until you've gone through the web equivalent of voice-mail hell clicking through page after page of FAQs that have nothing to do with your problem. :-( If somebody is really your friend, just send them an email direct or give them a call -- Don't expose their email to the social networking site owners. I also don't really want to have to run through that process for every new social networking site. I've done it a lot, and it's getting quite tiresome now... Perhaps I'm just a minority, but the social-networking sites are being abused a whole lot for this particular email... -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
