Re: Social Networking Sites OT

On 7/13/07, Robert Cummings <robert@interjinn.com> 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:

I agree with you ;) logging is too much :-P

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. Cheers, Rob.

I get invites from a lot of friends, but the problem is they all come from different sites (hyves, facebook, some dutch sites,...) I don't like to keep all of these sites up to date with my daily life etc., so I decided to NOT to join any of these social networking sites. The problem is, that most people on the sites I saw were only trying to get the most friends, most "friends" were even people they didn't know anything about. For me, No join, No "Social Networking Friends", no spam :) Tijnema -- Vote for PHP Color Coding in Gmail! -> http://gpcc.tijnema.info