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LinkedIn being vulgar
Today I received a request on LinkedIn (a social network for business partners) from someone named Christopher, and the interface abbreviated his name to "Christ..." resulting in a somewhat insulting button. :)
Posted on May 26, 2007 at 11:39 | Tweet
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ha. this is hilarious!
Posted by william on May 27, 2007 at 15:48
I got one of them yesterday from someone in HK who used to write me around 5 years ago. I know a lot of these viral social networking things seize and mass mail the users' address list if they use ms apps.
No attempts to convert me
Posted by ndkent on May 28, 2007 at 06:40
> I know a lot of these viral social networking things seize and mass mail the users' address list if they use ms apps.
No they don't. That's what a program called a virus/worm does, and only if you run it (and use Windows, most of the time). Nothing to do with the nature of SNS.
Posted by Patrick on May 28, 2007 at 07:42
I think it would fall under active content?
I've emailed people before when I got these invites that aren't written by the person sending it. They have no idea they shared their addressbook and mail is being sent with their address on it when they joined.
From the user side of things once a real friend talked me into joining Friendster. When I signed up on my browser the service quickly asked me something vague with a "yes" default like "would you like your online friends to know you are now member of friendster?" I said no, though I kind of doubt it could have accessed the mail app I use to begin with.
Posted by ndkent on May 29, 2007 at 06:29
> I've emailed people before when I got these invites that aren't written by the person sending it. They have no idea they shared their addressbook and mail is being sent with their address on it when they joined.
When a computer is infected with a virus/worm, it does that kind of stuff like sending out the address book, or sending spam to those addresses (using fake From addresses).
But to get infected in the first place, the user must execute a hostile program (sometimes of the form of ActiveX (Internet Explorer only)). Either way it doesn't happen automatically.
> would you like your online friends to know you are now member of friendster?
That probably only meant that it would display an "online" icon next to your username when you're logged into the site. Perhaps you worry a bit too much. :) But still, better be safe than sorry.
Posted by Patrick on May 29, 2007 at 11:14