Having received my 8th or 9th invite in the past few days, I went to check out this apparent-out-of-nowhere social network. There were some pretty notable people (people I think highly of) inviting me in.
I was disappointed to find that they’ve prepopulated their member-base by scraping several other social networks. I had two accounts already in there that they pulled from LinkedIn and MySpace, including my photo from myspace. Perhaps this information was acquired by mind meld. They call them “search results”. Nice try.
Not only did they pre-populate with this ripped-off data, but they do a nice job in making it seem like these people all signed up for the service. Then, when you request a “trust” relationship, I presume that they send that person an invite. I won’t test it to confirm.
They got balls to use the word “trust”.
I’ll be deleting my accounts.
How to delete anything, by the way, is very non-obvious. From reading the help section, the way to delete things is with liberal use of the “flag” option. I suggest you use it as well.
