I already had my run in with Jajah on Flickr, where the 'company' offered to be my fried and thus caused me to close my trial Jajah-Account. Now I have Jajah leave a visitor badge on my MyblogLOr roll in the sidebar: Jajah - MyBlogLog
Guys: It is called social networking', like in 'real people'. The Jajah-thingy does not stand for one of the funders but just has a blurb for the company in theur profile description (like the did in Flickr).
I also ot a guy namend 'Pornman' leaving his trace here. So this is the kinda company, Jajah gets themselves into.
If it is OK in Myspace to add people as frieds for bands or businesses, be it so. But anywhere else I'd call this: SPAM.
And: I want to have a 'block this person' and 'this is SPAM'-Button within mybloglog. Please.
Guys: It is called social networking', like in 'real people'. The Jajah-thingy does not stand for one of the funders but just has a blurb for the company in theur profile description (like the did in Flickr).
I also ot a guy namend 'Pornman' leaving his trace here. So this is the kinda company, Jajah gets themselves into.
If it is OK in Myspace to add people as frieds for bands or businesses, be it so. But anywhere else I'd call this: SPAM.
And: I want to have a 'block this person' and 'this is SPAM'-Button within mybloglog. Please.
Kommentare
I just find it disturbing to have 'companies' and not 'persons' in my *social* network (in fact there IS a link to a sales pitch for Jajah on my My-Bloglog-Widget...). I prefer persons and I say so.
I do not 'target' Jajah in any way. I just see that Jajah is almost the only company acting that way. and I treat all companies alike, time allowing ;)
We already tried to talk about this and I had the distinct feeling that you did not (want to?) understand what my problem with this was.
I still have that feeling. So if you want to listen and understand: Fine.
If you want to tell me that my uneasy feeling of having COMPANIES (as 'persons') in social networks is plain WRONG... well you can't argue with feelings, OK? But you can try ;)
I perceive this as spam in most of the networks (I mentioned that it seems to be 'the way you do it' in Myspace...). And it happens to me almost on a daily basis now. And I am missing complaint-buttons in most networks.
You also know that E-Mail is almost unuseable because of people who think it is OK to bombard others with "valuable information".
You also know that some people find it OK to use the comment areas of blogs or their trackback function for 'marketing'.
I am sure you fully disapprove of those practises and would never use them for Jajah.
I think that THIS is the right time to talk about what is considered ethical behavior in *social* networks.
I am more than happy to talk with you about that.