Re: [Sigia-l] Tagged: Malicious Social Network

From: Peter Van Dijck (petervandijck_at_gmail.com)
Date: Sat Apr 21 2007 - 11:35:39 EDT

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they are large, partly *thanks* to their rather ruthless "invitation"
features (it's very hard to sign up *without* spamming your entire
contact list.

My feeling is they're an overly commercial, spammy operation, but hey,
so is Myspace in many ways.

Peter

On 4/21/07, Eric Reiss <elr_at_e-reiss.com> wrote:
> This looks like MySpace for gang members. Not my cyberhood.
>
> Eric
>
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> To: sigia-l_at_asis.org
> Subject: RE: [Sigia-l] Tagged: Malicious Social Network
> Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 08:51:28 -0400
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> >Is anyone familiar with Tagged dot com? I'm not writing down to link
> >because I don't want you to sign up. I'm getting all kinds of bad
> >vibes
> >from it.
> >
> > Screen shots with comments
> > http://livlab.com/thinkia/2007/04/tagged-malicious-social-network/
> >
> >They take your email without your consent, flash you animated cursor
> >ads
> >and suspiciously don't provide any information about themselves. And
> >I
> >keep getting invitations.
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