Mash doesn’t do it for me
I received an email yesterday advising me that a profile had been set up for me by xx xx and that this was my invitation to join their network.
I was immediately turned off. First of all, I didn’t even know the guy who had set up this ‘profile’ for me - how dare he do that? No previous contact, no introduction and his name is not familiar to me. Second, the address the invitation had been sent to indicates which network this guy supposedly knows me from but when I check my connection list he is nowhere to be found. He has just proven himself not to be trustworthy.
I contacted the people at Mash and asked them to remove the profile - as yet no response and it’s well over 24 hours ago. I’ve had to do it myself after I spent some (wasted) time exploring.
I think just this one thing has proven to me that Mash is not a network I want to participate in. And if the responses from my colleagues in a business network are anything to go by, neither will they.
Interesting, when you search Yahoo’s Terms of Service it actually states that you can make your page modifiable by others in Mash. What the? And so doesn’t the ‘owner’ get any say in the first place as to whether they want a profile? I think they’ll have problems with this - it’s an open door to trouble. What do you think?
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I agree that it sounds a little dubious. That is not my ideal kind or type of social networking.
It’s a great name though - MASH - I LOVE mashed potatoes.
Thanks for alerting us to this through the Carnival of Australia.
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