A quick message to all and sundry. It’s an apology…with a little grumbling thrown in.
Everyone I know — and several people I don’t — just got an automated invite to Quechup, a social networking website. This happened without my knowledge or consent. I’m very sorry.
Long story short: I found a Quechup invite this morning in my e-mail. It was marked as coming from an acquaintance I rather liked, so I figured I’d join. When I registered on the website (wonky as it was), it offered to scan my address book and find this person for me. Like a doofus, I thought, “Gosh, how convenient,†and clicked ok.
The fineprint didn’t load onto the page until much later. Nice trick.
I can grumble till the sun explodes, but I’m still the one who clicked on it.
Feel free to disregard the Quechup invite. No hard feelings from me… unless your name is Quechup.
Don’t get me wrong. For all I know, it could be a great website. It doesn’t load completely 90 percent of the time, its privacy policy and its webcode are two completely different things, and it acts like a damn computer virus. But hey, it could be a great website.
And yet I’m not linking to it. Maybe when I calm down….