Friendster or Foe!
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For the last 2 weeks or so, Friendster.com (the social-networking website) has been mass e-mailing 
people that have not actually signed up to be part of its network. How could this happen and why is this a big deal?
Well first, most of us have enough e-mail to deal with as it is, without having to wade through any unsolicited e-mail. However, this isn't the worst part of the story. The e-mail solicitations are made to look like they are coming from someone that has previously e-mailed you and asked you to become a part of their friendster network. This struck home for me, because I actually received one of these e-mails, and it really looks as if your colleague is being particularly pesky about you joining their network. In fact, even though your friend/colleague may have sent you an initial e-mail months ago, this new e-mail solicitation was not purposely sent by them at all (even though it's made to look as if it is).
If you are a member of one of these networks (another one is myspace.com), this may be troubling to you on a number of different fronts. While you might have been fine with sending a friend an initial e-mail asking them to join your online social-network, you probably respected their non-response to your e-mail request.
For whatever reason, they didn't want to join your social-network. However, when these e-mails are now sent to them over again, and made to look as if you are sending them, that can be a real issue in a business setting. So be aware, as these online social-networking sites come under increased competition from other sites, there is always the chance that they will resort to practices that you may have never dreamed of when you first signed up with them.
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