[Publib] My Space and U Tube

[Celeste Fong]

This warning about Quechup is from Boingboing.com:


While you were Burning / vacationing / spacing out offline this Labor
Day weekend, many folks online were hit with invitations from a social
networking service called Quechup that violates your address book, and
abuses user trust by spamming all your contacts. 

Now that people are coming back from the Labor Day holiday, expect a
bunch of invites -- I've received a dozen just this morning. Delete 'em
if you know what's good for you. Link to one of many first person
accounts, Link to another. And another, and another (punch line: the
spam blast created by Quechup caused Google to suspended that victim's
Gmail account). 

Update: via Howard Rheingoldon Twitter, here's the corporate rep info
for Quechup: 

Quechup attorney, I am told: Loeb & Loeb LLP 345 Park Avenue New York,
NY 10154-0037 Tel: (212) 407-4000Tel: (212) 407-4000 USA
Quechup parent corp, I'm told: iDate Corporation 6767 West Tropicana
Ave. Suite 207, Las Vegas, NV 89103 Las Vegas, NV 89103


Celeste M. Fong
Principal Librarian
Upland Public Library
450 North Euclid Ave.
Upland, CA
 
Phone: 909-931-4202
Fax: 909-931-4209
 
cfong at ci.upland.ca.us

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From: publib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:publib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Robert L. Balliot
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 1:06 PM
To: 'John Leonard'; 'mrslaurie'; 'Cherry, Kevin'
Cc: publib at webjunction.org
Subject: RE: Re: [Publib] My Space and U Tube



Greetings John,

Facebook and MySpace are great sites for people to learn
about social networking. They are basically set up, however,
for you to become part of their world. 

Other social networking sites allow you to construct your
own world.  I have not looked at http://quechup.com, but I think that
many of the startups are trying attract a more mature
audience.

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