If you get an invite from me to join a social network called Quechup: ignore the e-mail. It's some kind of a viral campaign meets a real virus. Think Plaxo meets LinkedIn meets FriendFinder, but in a fucked-up, messy way. I apologise. So do these fellow belbloggers:Quechup : NOT what social should be @ Werner.be
Quechup disaster! @ ibert.be
Quechup Sucks and violates privacy ! @ x-tend.be
Hold the Quechup @ sparehed.com
But every cloud has a silver lining. Thanks to Quecup's unsollicited invitation e-mail to your complete Hotmail or Gmail contact book, you can
- Get lunch invites from ex colleagues you haven't seen in a while (I got 4!)
- Study the mailer daemons and find out how "fresh" your contact database is (I got only 2 invalid e-mail addresses)
- Get a pitiful attempt from your ex boyfriend/girlfriend to get back in touch; then ignore that attempt completely and reinforce blocking mechanisms
- Start a small community for "people who got f***ed by Quechup" and think of ways to create awareness and make sure they never make it through some kind of a VC round
- See how far you can go by attempting to pollute the natural search results for Quechup
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