I think this is a result of misleading design. These are cheap tricky methods to get more Users base eventually more traffic and money. Finally users lands up in embarrassing situations like this. This invitation might go to your VP, Girl fiend, Father, etc. Because people have all kind of email Address in their Address Book. Like Keyur sent this to IXDA and some other mailing list. :(
After frustrating experience of receiving multiple invites I wrote this Blog http://kicksandkisses.com/wordpress/?p=47 Cheers and Be Aware of such websites. Gajendra On 10/23/07, Jarod Tang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Matthew: > > Thanks for your sharing ( from myself's side), :). > > Cheers > -- Jarod > > On 10/23/07, Matthew Nish-Lapidus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just did the same thing :( > > > > The sign up for that site, which actually is interesting, auto-selects > > the "send this to all my friends" option, and it's not obvious until > > you've already pressed submit. > > > > Talk about bad interface design. > > > > Now I'm going to have to send out a couple hundred apologies.... > > > > On 10/23/07, keyur sorathia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I dont know what happened, but somebody send me a link and this > 'stumble > > > upon' came up. > > > and sent the invitation to everyone. > > > > > > > > > > > > On 10/23/07, Jarod Tang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Is some guy leak the mail list information out? > > > > > > > > Cheers > > > > -- Jarod > > > > > > > > On 10/23/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > StumbleUpon > > > > > > > > > > Discover new web sites > > > > > Keyurbsorathia wants to share his Favorites with > > > > > you > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Matt Nish-Lapidus > > email/gtalk: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ++ > > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mattnl > > Home: http://www.nishlapidus.com > > > > > -- > IxD for better life style. > > http://jarodtang.blogspot.com > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help
