I have deleted my quechup account

I am pleased to inform everyone that I have deleted my quechup account. These guys are tricksters.If they can trick us into spamming our address book contacts, you never know what they will do with our accounts. As I said yesterday, if you signed up with them using an invite seemingly from me, please delete that account forthwith. It is better just to stay with facebook, myspace and other existing social networks.

The Quechup spam

Last week, Jeremy Miller sent me an invite to join Quechup.com. My immediate thought was that he was returning a favor to me because a few weeks ago, I sent him a pownce invite (I am glad he joined and now he is one of my pownce friends). In light of this, I quickly went to the Quechup site and signed up for their service. After signing up, they offered to check my contacts to see if anyone else I knew was already on the service. This is not uncommon in the world of social networking, because Facebook, Myspace and many other networks do it in the same way, so I agreed.I entered my gmail info just like I did when I joined facebook a few weeks ago.

Quechup has now sent emails to everyone of in my gmail address book inviting them to join Quechup in my name. Now, my mailbox is being filled up with Quechup friend alerts from all over the world. Some people are even asking me why I invited them. Therefore, I would like to ask everyone who has received an invite to join Quechup from me to please ignore it.Please accept my profound apologies for subjecting you to these spam bandits. If you did sign up, please delete your account forthwith because you never know what these guys are going to do next.

If you have just noticed these messages in your mailbox, please delete them. If you have been used to Quechup-spam other people already, please do not send out multiple messages of apology to all your address book contacts, because that, in itself, might be construed as spam by gmail, yahoo and other mail giants out there. You account might be disabled just like Matt Staggs, who after being tricked by Quechup.com ended up sending all his contacts an apology. This resulted in an email blast which has caused Google to suspend his Gmail account.

As pointed out by Jeremy, Quechup may be a fine social networking site but their underhanded tactics to gain new members is unethical.

My facebook account is back!

It is an indisputable fact that facebook is one of the greatest online social utilities of our time. I joined facebook a few weeks ago after a long period of hesitation. Within a short period of time, I have managed to link up with many of my family members, old friends and even new ones. However, I have been having some problems with facebook for the past two weeks. They disabled my account because I took repeated actions that had been construed as spam by the facebook system. I really did this because I was desperately looking for a particular piece of information. I resorted to sending the same message to different people on facebook to increase the probability of getting the information.

Upon querying the facebook team, they told me that after reviewing my situation, they have reconfirmed my account and I should now be able to access it again. I am glad because my account is back!I have created several links already using this account. I would like to inform my facebook friends that I am back :)

The facebook support team further advised me not send or post any more form messages because further violations of their Terms will result in the termination of my account. I guess this experience serves as a lesson to other people as well.