Is Deceptively Getting People To Spam Their Friends Identity The...

Courtesy Techdirt  Fri, 07/10/2009 - 03:28

Last month, the social networking site Tagged got in some PR trouble after its attempt at "viral marketing" went a little haywire, causing lots of people to inadvertently spam their friends with invites to the service (and then those who signed up may have done the same).

Such things are pretty common. They're deceptive and annoying, and companies that engage in them don't tend to last very long because no one really wants to use their service.

But is...

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