Although there's not a huge amount of evidence that they're spammers or other such undesirables, I really don't feel comfortable entering any or all of my personal details into sites who are affiliated with things like Birthday Alarm or whatever it was called.
6 comments
David 'Zanchey' Adam :: Friday, February 18th
Troy gets an honourable mention for trying to trick me.
Sod.
Dirk :: Friday, February 18th
Im sorry, i was young and foolish
*spelt young wrong
Jason Stirk :: Saturday, February 19th
This is why we have filters in our mail clients.
If Mail Contains bebo then Delete this message.
Sorted.
David "Zanchey" Adam :: Saturday, February 19th
Right.
As per http://zanchey.ucc.asn.au/archives/00000057.html:
Today, your actions caused me to be sent another e-mail asking if I would please provide all my personal details to www.bebo.com.
Let's just think about that for a second. You've given my e-mail address to a commercial group who I've never met, and they (and you by corollary) are encouraging me to give all my information to a company:
- who make their money by acquiring other people's information;
- who have a privacy policy that is subject to change without notice;
- who acknowledge that they WILL use my personal information to 'improve ... marketing and promotional efforts'; and
- who accept no responsibility if their servers are compromised and my personal information is disclosed.
Ummmm... no.
I could tell you to not take this personally. There wouldn't be much point. You have now been added to the list of people who are (in my opinion) clueless about the Internet, and probably life in general. If you even read the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use of bebo.com before you signed up, I might be willing to reconsider my opinion, but I doubt it.
If you're too lazy to find out from me (or other people) what I'm up to, then why do I care?
Got clue?
David Adam
zanchey_daa@hotmail.com (although, apparently, you can't be trusted with this)
David "Zanchey" Adam :: Saturday, February 19th
Jason -
It gets worse. As I was writing my rude e-mail, I got one more from Bebo and one from hi5.
ARGH!
Nat :: Tuesday, February 22nd
a) I've been on your list of people clueless about the net for ages... you know how inept i am.
b) sure i read the term and conditions, but as long as it doesn't say "we will be using your details to create a database to help in our ambition of world domination" I pretty much don't care.
c) Birthday reminders is the only way that i remember anyones birthday. The huge list that is stuck to my mirror which i use everyday doesn't help.
d) why wouldn't you rejoice from getting email everyday which can make you life easier and your love life more satisfying???
From the clueless but lovable N@
