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Re: Tagged: The World's Most Annoying Website

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Post by tokenadult »

jimboyoungblood wrote: post #20
tokenadult wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why does the article call them "Harvard math majors"? Maybe because they both majored in math (as undergraduate students) at Harvard? http://images.businessweek.com/ss/06/03/tech_entrepreneurs/s...

Wow you're clever. But if you look at their CV's, they are much more credentialed as physics geeks than as math geeks. So why does the author choose to call them "math majors"? It seems like the choice must have been intentional, but I have no idea what purpose it would serve. From: http://corp.tagged.com/management.html "Greg holds an A.B. in Chemistry & Physics & Mathematics from Harvard University, where he served…

It seems like the choice must have been intentional

It may just be what the writer recalled at the moment he wrote.

By the way, if I remember correctly, the physics and mathematics concentration at Harvard is distinct from majoring in math by itself and distinct from majoring in physics by itself. But presumably the concentration requires quite a strong knowledge of math.

Re: Tagged: The World's Most Annoying Website

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Post by whughes »

niyazpk wrote: post #10

I am sad that they do this in a website with over 70 million monthly visits! Greed. Lesson learned: If you are bad in the beginning, you will continue to be bad even after you are successful.

Where do you think they get the 70 million monthly visits from? I don't know anyone that actually uses Tagged as a social network. It would seem to me that the simplest explanation is that their bad behavior is the only reason they maintain any kind of popularity. No one is going back to Tagged and continuing to use the site, so they'd lose everything if they stopped expanding.

Re: Tagged: The World's Most Annoying Website

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Post by jimboyoungblood »

whughes wrote: post #22
niyazpk wrote: post #10

I am sad that they do this in a website with over 70 million monthly visits! Greed. Lesson learned: If you are bad in the beginning, you will continue to be bad even after you are successful.

Where do you think they get the 70 million monthly visits from? I don't know anyone that actually uses Tagged as a social network. It would seem to me that the simplest explanation is that their bad behavior is the only reason they maintain any kind of popularity. No one is going back to Tagged and continuing to use the site, so they'd lose everything if they stopped expanding.

Just because you don't know anyone doesn't mean nobody is. Judging by their quantcast stats, their retention is decent, and a lot better than many overhyped sites beloved by the web 2.0 circle jerk.

Re: Tagged: The World's Most Annoying Website

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Post by absconditus »

towelrod wrote: post #12

I'm confused. How did tagged get his contact list? If he's dumb enough to enter his username and password from gmail or whatever into some spam of the week website, then its his fault. Or does tagged get that information some other way, like a partnership with yahoo or something?

"Basically, as I remember, I registered for the site through a Windows Live hotmail address, and very early on in the process it asked if I would like to send along a similar message to every contact in my account."

Re: Tagged: The World's Most Annoying Website

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Post by SwellJoe »

tdavis wrote: post #16
tokenadult wrote: post #3

"But I've been burned, so here's my advice: If you get any kind of message from Tagged, delete it. Avoid the site altogether." Hear. Hear. Nothing but junk on that site, and annoyance for your friends.

Better advice: Don't input your email credentials into any site that isn't your email host. Simple.

The fact that legitimate sites ask for this information is really bad for consumers. It makes them think it's business as usual to just give away their passwords to anybody that happens to have a website and a button that says "Import my contacts" or "Tell my friends" or "Send me money" or whatever.

Even if we can trust Facebook with this information, it lends an air of nonchalance to the practice.

Re: Tagged: The World's Most Annoying Website

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Post by rjprins »

whughes wrote: post #22
niyazpk wrote: post #10

I am sad that they do this in a website with over 70 million monthly visits! Greed. Lesson learned: If you are bad in the beginning, you will continue to be bad even after you are successful.

Where do you think they get the 70 million monthly visits from? I don't know anyone that actually uses Tagged as a social network. It would seem to me that the simplest explanation is that their bad behavior is the only reason they maintain any kind of popularity. No one is going back to Tagged and continuing to use the site, so they'd lose everything if they stopped expanding.

Just two weeks ago I bought a second hand laptop from the type of guy who actually uses Tagged. I can give you a profile:

- Single male, 40+

- Low income

- He and his house were a mess.

- Smokes a lot (the laptop still smells horrible, after cleaning thrice)

He actually left all his shit on the laptop and when I opened Firefox, Tagged.com opened, with his account logged in. Call me an amoral bastard, but I checked out his account, here is the sole reason he uses Tagged:

To meet women. The only women on Tagged apparantly are East-European women, who would like to marry a West-European guy. He told me he was selling the laptop because he was going on a holiday to Lituania and he needed the money. Nobody goes to Lituania on a holiday, I initially thought he must have family there. But in his messages I found out he hooked up with some girl. So, I guess Tagged can serve your goals.. if your goals are shady like the site.

Re: Tagged: The World's Most Annoying Website

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Post by pj »

SwellJoe wrote: post #27
tdavis wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Better advice: Don't input your email credentials into any site that isn't your email host. Simple.

The fact that legitimate sites ask for this information is really bad for consumers. It makes them think it's business as usual to just give away their passwords to anybody that happens to have a website and a button that says "Import my contacts" or "Tell my friends" or "Send me money" or whatever. Even if we can trust Facebook with this information, it lends an air of nonchalance to the practice.

The problem is that even you think you can trust facebook. It's only a matter of time until this kind of stuff starts there too. I've already gotten lots of spam from them. People even put my email address into facebook without my permission.

It's ruining the internet.

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