What the fuck? Every time, I have to fill in a damn form. A web form. I recall my first web form is probably one at Hotmail.com. That is fine, really, it’s fine. I fill in the nice little form, I get something out of it – a pathetic 2 MB email. But really – it’s fine. At least I got something.
Today, I opened my Hotmail inbox, it’s now 250 MB. Thank you Microsoft, you have done something right finally. I see a bunch of spam! Not exactly spam. It’s people who are inviting me to Friendster accounts, myspace.com accounts, hi-5 account, some silly address book and many many many many many many many freaking many more.
I have to admit when I first heard of Friendster, I thought the idea was rather interesting. My friends invited me there. Then, my friends increase gradually. Now friendster says that I have 46 friends. That’s great because it means that I am popular. I recall MSN Zone saying something like – You have no friends – which totally destroy my day. I mean – I have no friends. 
So every time people send me friendster invitations, I’ll accept it. Then people start sending myspace.com, hi-5 accounts. People ask me to tell them my birthday through some Birthday Alarm service. This is crazy. They could have just send me an email and I would most definately declare my birthday to be on October 24, 1985. And of course, I won’t forget to tell them that there is this DVD burner that I always wanted.
And today, the strangest thing popped into my mail! Some some updating address books service I think. My friends would send me an email. I click on the link and filled in my email address and home addresses. I don’t dare to reveal personal information to this strange company that I never heard before. Upon looking through their privacy policy, I realized that I “…agree that we may use personal information about you to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to analyze site usage, improve our content and product offerings, and customize the Site’s content, layout, and services.”
But the thing that really made me thought “what the fuck?” is the fact that my friends are sending this email to collect my email? God damn it, compile your own address book!
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Tags: internet, mail, msn, social networking
lol…be careful with those kind of websites.Just thank God you didn’t send them cash…did you?
by aurora_starfire (Jan 20, 2005 at 10 AM)Its not uncommon for ppl to have 80 over friends at Friendsters…My friends added pretty much everyone they know that was using frensters. Mine is pathetic though. Add me add me!
by Serene (Jan 20, 2005 at 3 PM)My friends keep sending me emails linked to forms to fill up. They land up in the trash can(except for the birthday alarms XD) And my hotmail account still isn’t 250mb yet…
you are not the only one handling all this hehe. i have got the update email address thingy just recently too. i’m nt doing it though, because i have to sign up. and i hate signing up for random stuff like that. you really never know if they are going to sell out ur info one day or not
by yingru (Jan 21, 2005 at 12 AM)aurora_starfire: Nope, I haven’t send them any money. I am such a miser.
Serene: Oh I fill in all the forms. If not for my friend’s sake, I wouldn’t be bothering with this dumb forms. I’ll add you to my friendster.
But do note that I don’t go there often so if you want to send a message, it’s best to mail me at dew@beconfused.com
by Mr. Dew (Jan 21, 2005 at 12 AM)yingru: Yeah, I hate filling in all these forms too, they’re too annoying. It is simple to fill, but it’s annoying to visit one site after another to register, the whole process just gets so annoying that the user may spill explecits when sightly a innocent looking radio button that asks for your gender.
by Mr. Dew (Jan 21, 2005 at 12 AM)wahhh [Mr. Dew] kor kor u so vulgar.
[Note: My name's censored. Opps.]
by *jesslyn ((: (Jan 22, 2005 at 2 PM)*jesslyn ((:: lol, it’s my blog, and sometimes I don’t really censor my language.
by Mr. Dew (Jan 23, 2005 at 12 AM)No one does these days,lol.My pals swear like sailors.
by aurora_starfire (Jan 23, 2005 at 5 AM)I don’t swear at all-I just use substitutes.I’m like the Ned Flanders guy off The Simpsons,lol
aurora_starfire: I don’t really swear much too. I’ve seen blog with like a dozen ‘fucks’ in a post.
by Mr. Dew (Jan 23, 2005 at 7 AM)