Social networking websites are kinda driving me nuts by contantly sending me reminders that my friends have added me. I am displeased that my friends added me into those mailing list. It keeps sending me reminders to join those social networking websites like Multiply, MySpace, Friendster, Facebook, Hi5 and others. (I refuse to link them.)
I know how it works roughly, once you register, you’re given an option to input your Hotmail username and password. Then made a promise not to do anything to your passwords asides to collect your friend’s email addresses. You log in and they collect your friend’s email and mass invite them to join the social network.
It’s kinda like spam if you think about it. My friends always seem to get tricked into doing that.
Before you guys submit your username and password, think about security a little okay? You’re actually giving someone your username and password to tell him or her to sign in and take all your friend’s emails. The process is just automated, but your password can remain with the website and the webmaster can eventually log in to your account.
It is unlikely that the webmaster would check your email account. But what if the website got hacked and their databases got accessed by others. It’s just not the safest to do. On a side note, I believe the Microsoft Windows Live ID team has something in plans to build APIs for retrieving user’s contacts without having to surrender your username and password to a third party website.
Please don’t get all your friends into this type of trouble. Think twice before surrendering your username and passwords.
Tags: annoyance, facebook, social networking
Haha.. We share the same view. It is a pain to receive spam email from those networking sites.
by nay min thu (Jul 14, 2007 at 1 PM)