Published by shannon July 20th, 2007 in no category
Mea culpa — actually, no: Shelfari culpa
I am absolutely, terrifically, terribly sorry about the spamming Shelfari did on my behalf. If you didn’t get the apology email I sent out shortly afterwards, here goes: I logged in to check out the service, since, as an author, I like to stay on top of these kinds of things. While looking at their “find your friends on webmail” feature, I back-arrowed in my browser and it sent out invites to all 400+ people in my webmail address book instead. (Many of whom are probably reading this right now).
I have written to Shelfari and asked for their assistance in this matter, especially since now, days later, the stupid system is now sending out reminders to everyone that I spammed them using Shelfari’s dumb, dumb, dumb web app.
Should Shelfari decide to help me rectify this situation, I’ll take down this little note, which I’ve cross-posted to my Shelfari account and elsewhere, but right now, given how unprofessional this makes me look, they’ll have to delete my account before I’ll change my mind about it.
And I’m not the only one this happened to, either — a friend of mine had the same thing happen to her when she logged in.
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Stupid books, always causing trouble.
Happened to me, too. I actually got three invites that day from various people, and had the *exact* same thing happen when I signed up.
Tech support/customer care/whatever apologized profusely, and I was *just* about to forgive anyone for a one-time stupid technical glitch, but today started the round of reminders and I can say with certainty that I kind of want bad things to happen to them involving fleas and naughtybits.
Yarn suppliers, ex-boyfriends, local people, my *in laws* fergawdssakes….
soooo unprofessional.
Anybody got some fleas we can send over to them?
I got a couple invites from myself, actually. But I knew I was such a prick that there’s no way I’d join anything I invited myself to. Shelfari’s pretty cool, but I’m gonna change my username so I can’t spam myself anymore…
LibraryThing is cooler, B — and it doesn’t spam everyone you know. Bah. Adding together these comments plus the ones on my knitblog plus the ones from emails? At least 10 people that *I* know alone have had this happen to them. Ick.