To the naive: Grow up. No one’s saying it doesn’t have great features and real uses, only that there’s a hook in with the bait. The big world is full of scams, where someone is trying to con others out of something valuable. The more legitimate it looks, the more effective it is. The complaints here are from people who are feeling the hook. The internet is a con artist’s paradise, partly because of the lack of sophistication of many of its users, and partly because of the possibilities of using advanced, mass technology to run scams on millions of people at the same time. It gets harder and harder to avoid being a victim.

The ability to make money can be an admirable thing, but it loses its shine if it’s done by preying on unsuspecting people. And the kinds of information that Tagged is apparently gathering could come around and really hurt people.

What’s the best way to get the word out about this wolf in sheep’s clothing? Email everyone we know and start a warning going around with websites to back it up? (Two posted by NoSpam above, and also look at

http://www.intuitive.com/blog/....._what.html )

I’ll start by doing that, but is there a more effective way to get the news out?

If you’re someone who likes the networking Tagged provides, at least tell all your contacts what to watch out for and how to accomplish signing up without giving the service your address book. Please, don’t be a sap and play into the hands of a big outfit after more than pleasant friendships online. And you know, it’d be real nice if you’d ask your friends first if they want to be included in any invitation before you let any program send out anything.

it claims to have around 7 500 000 registered users, and it currently its very close to catch bebo, take a look at alexa graph:

http://www.alexa.com/data/deta.....iverse.com

I hope people begin to realise and not encourage by signing up..

Facebook seems to be the only site which doesn’t ‘harass’ their userbase

Tagged isn’t using botz, zombies, or any other dastardly e-mail techniques; this kind of lazy conspiracy-mongering in the age of CAN-SPAM just makes you look retarded.

Here are the facts: Tagged has a full-time compliance officer with a Columbia J.D., their unsub links work great, and they aren’t interested in unhappy users.

Calm down, click unsub, and consider adding a better photo to your Nerve profile.

But I thin its worst… Im getting email form people wo DONT even sign in TaggFUKed. I think they are using zombies as well.

I believe you owe your users an apology for lending credibility to this spam factory, and a follow-up post warning your users about these bottom feeders.

Their ToS suggest that they are simply building a giant marketing database. I’m sure they expect to be out of business shortly, but they’ll make plenty of money selling people’s information to similarly slimy types. Unfortunately, they’ll have made the Internet worse off in the process.

“One new social networking site is a poster child for the abuse of social networking.”

http://www.eweek.com/article2/.....675,00.asp
http://www.symantec.com/enterp.....eb_20.html

“… you little pile of 16-30 webmasters… you’re just a bunch of whiny tards that can’t see that this guy’s plan WORKS, whether ethical or not…. so stuff your BS ethicality down ur own throat and get with the program here, what a bunch of whiny , blind , hating crowd.”

“hating”, yea, dont let me find you with your door unlocked.

Marat Bruk believes the only way to achieve success is to ignore ethics…

Marat Bruk aka Marc Bruk convicted of…

Marat Bruk aka Marc Bruk Quebec sentenced to …

Marat Bruk will surely appreciate the lack of ethics involved in the process of some 16 - 30 year old smashing his window, and stuffing some ethicality down his throat (wrapped around a fist).

Marat Bruk believes the only way to achieve success is to ignore ethics…

> bright_marc@hotmail.com

http://tinyurl.com/2892kj

September 9th, what a glorious day!

Also check out the country distribution - obviously hitting a lot of international lists…