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Quechup – The social networking site that spammed

September 5th, 2007 by Rose DesRochers · 5 Comments

Are You Getting Quechup Spammed?

I have been receiving all kinds of invites to join a new social network called Quechup. Quechup is owned by a company called Idate and they have the blogosphere buzzing.

A quick Google search for Quechup  reveals many warnings to ignore invites from the new social networking site.

Many have joined Quechup at the invitation of a trusted contact, only to find out the site has spammed their entire address book without their knowledge.

Matt Staggs of skullring.org  signed up and ended up unknowingly  spamming all his contacts. He then sent everyone an apology email, and the mishap resulted in Google suspending his Gmail account. What a mess. Poor Matt!

The Houston Chronicle  describes Quechup’s methods of acquiring new members as “questionable at best.”

Boingboing.net suggests to “Delete the invites if you know what’s good for you.”

Clint Boulton of eWeek Channel Insider states ” Quechup is an example of how social networking sites can go horribly wrong and risk alienating users. ”

When I received the invite, I deleted it thinking there are all ready too many social networking sites.  This does bring up an interesting question.

How many more social networking sites do we really need?

Have you received a Quechup invite?

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5 responses so far ↓

  • Matt Arnold
    Wrote: Sep 7, 2007 at 5:16 am

    wow. Thanks for the warning. I had no idea about this :shock:

  • Josh
    Wrote: Sep 7, 2007 at 12:16 pm

    I’ve never heard about this either. Thanks for the heads up.

  • Carl Coddington
    Wrote: Sep 8, 2007 at 11:17 am

    It’s sad that Boing Boing just posted this yesterday. It hit front page of Digg.

    You beat them to the punch and didn’t get the 1,000’s of visitors to your site.

  • Rose DesRochers
    Wrote: Sep 9, 2007 at 12:33 am

    No problem Josh and Matt.

    Carl I don’t have a huge Digg following. lol Geez 757 Diggs?

  • Hazel
    Wrote: Sep 9, 2007 at 2:18 am

    Nope no invites for me. Somehow I don’t feel left out :P There sure are a lot of sites out there. I’m really a slow learner when it comes to them. Just figuring out whats what. Thanks for all the informative posts, they’ve been really helpful and practical.