Comments on: MyWhatSpace sends group messages in MySpace

By: ashley

ashley — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:56:47 +0000

wath are you taling about

By: ashley

ashley — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:55:54 +0000

the guy i like i don’t really know his name

By: ashley

ashley — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:54:49 +0000

i realy like this guy in bus and he always put’s on a black jacket

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 04:13:05 +0000

Sounds like a good idea

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 01:39:31 +0000

This is a great app…anyone know whats up with the site / email…i cant get ahold of anyone.

By: Jason Cox

Jason Cox — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 18:22:14 +0000

well thank you tech crunch we’re getting
bids from all sorts of big boy companies
trying to buy this site out already

how funny is this name

my what space ?

haha

JJ COX

p.s. i have a TON more idea to ake software
much more addicting to users and more viral

By: Jason Cox

Jason Cox — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 18:22:13 +0000

well thank you tech crunch we’re getting
bids from all sorts of big boy companies
trying to buy this site out already

how funny is this name

my what space ?

haha

JJ COX

p.s. i have a TON more idea to ake software
much more addicting to users and more viral

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By: downloadblog

downloadblog — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 22:06:58 +0000

MyWhatSpace: messaggi multipli su MySpace…

Con Myspace non è possibile inviare lo stesso messaggio a più persone contemporaneamente. E’ probabilmente una limitazione che serve ad evitare fenomeni di spam.
MyWhatSpace è un programma, da scaricare sul pc, che permette ri raggruppare i…

By: Aibek Esengulov

Aibek Esengulov — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 18:33:39 +0000

correction: first line goes as; “well it is kinda sucky when BIG guyz like myspace just crush small ones like singlestat.us”

By: Aibek Esengulov

Aibek Esengulov — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 18:31:39 +0000

well it is kinda sucky when BIG guyz like myspace just small like singlestat.us… Eventhough myspace states that they did it because do not want other services put load on their servers. I am not buying this one though

By: Edmund Yeo

Edmund Yeo — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 17:42:56 +0000

I meant MyWhatSpace.

By: Edmund Yeo

Edmund Yeo — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 17:41:57 +0000

Yeah, but Myspace Bots can kinda be, well, exploited as a tool for major spammage!

By: Rooks

Rooks — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 15:10:11 +0000

In all honesty the other two had a hint of stalkerish intent.

By: Edmund Yeo

Edmund Yeo — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 09:56:08 +0000

But that’s strange, I thought this feature is no different from those Myspace Bots thingie used to send mass messages to random people. I don’t know why those could still be available for sale when Datinganyone and Singlestat has to be closed down.

By: Skeptic

Skeptic — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 07:59:34 +0000

Well, I guess it’s a better name than MyWhoreSpace…

By: Jim Kukral

Jim Kukral — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 02:37:33 +0000

Anyone have a list of cool myspace tools that aren’t shut down?

By: dumbfounder

dumbfounder — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 01:44:28 +0000

This will be shut down very soon I imagine. It is too great a tool for spamming. MySpace doesn’t want the nonchalant befriending of strangers to stop, that is part of what makes MySpace such a powerful viral marketing tool.

Yes, it is something run locally so you can’t stop it from being distributed via p2p, but all they have to do is change the name of some forms on MySpace, or change every so slightly the behavior of the emailing, and it renders this app worthless. So there would need to be an underground movement to keep it current, and I think it would just fizzle out.

By: Tollie Williams

Tollie Williams — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 01:01:36 +0000

By my understanding, this does violate Myspace’s TOS:

8. Content/Activity Prohibited.

The following is a partial list of the kind of Content that is illegal or prohibited to post on or through the MySpace Services… 9. involves the transmission of “junk mail,” “chain letters,” or unsolicited mass mailing, instant messaging, “spimming,” or “spamming”;

The following is a partial list of the kind of activity that is illegal or prohibited on the MySpace Website and through your use of the MySpace Services… 4. any automated use of the system, such as using scripts to add friends or send comments or messages;

(Not exactly hard to find that information… Anyways.)

And as far as: “This would be a very logical feature for MySpace to include itself, but it doesn’t,” here is Facebook’s explanation for its own lack of the feature. (Emphasis mine)

Can I send out a message to my entire Friend List?
Unfortunately, there is no mass-messaging (multiple-recipient) feature. We tested a similar feature a while ago, but our feedback was that people didn’t like it because it produced too much spam and too many chain letters.

Note that both Facebook and Myspace have opt-in groups, and while I don’t know about Myspace, on Facebook the moderators of groups may send a limited number of mass messages to all their group members.

By: JD

JD — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 00:49:10 +0000

Az1324, well said. Seriously

By: az1324

az1324 — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 23:56:44 +0000

The reason it won’t be that easy to shut this down compared to the others is because the software is run on individual users computers and not through the company’s servers. So there is not only one source IP to block and it is in fact the users who are running the software locally. The company is just distributing it. Even if Myspace gets them to stop distributing it the software is already out there and will be around for download via P2P forever. So this is going to require a coding change to stop. And how do you stop a local browser scripting program? Well its not that easy because the program now has all the authority of the local user. Myspace could limit the frequency of messages a user can send, but then only down to a reasonable number that would be possible for a real user to accomplish. I wrote an app like this for personal use over a year ago and there are people using their own for spam currently. But there are intelligent countermeasures that Myspace can implement. If someone is sending group messages only to their friends and it isn’t getting marked as spam then its probably fine. New users are already monitored for number of messages that get marked as spam. And people are just going to have to be a little more careful about who they add to their friends list, even if it means their e-popularity suffers a bit. It has the potential to do more good than it does harm, and if Myspace really wants to stop it then they should add the Features natively.

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By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 23:17:59 +0000

The reason MySpace can get away with stuff like this is that the majority are not even remotely tech-savvy and wouldn’t have known about this unless MySpace told them… Apparently what users don’t know isn’t good for them, and what MySpace won’t tell gets rid of competition (or a userbase which is aware that it is possible to have better features than MySpace and actively seeks an alternative)…