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| Thread ID: 58597 | 2005-06-06 00:06:00 | any info on hi5? | rugila (214) | Press F1 |
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| 361515 | 2005-06-06 00:06:00 | Just received an email sent "on behalf of" a friend that invites me to join up on www.hi5.com to share in her circle of friends and just about everything else, incl "more than 12 million other Hi5 members". She's an enthusiastic 21yr old who's no great expert on computers and internet traps but likes to make use of the web for social contacts etc. I've got to be somewhat suspicious about this sort of thing, and at the least see this, in addition to whatever positives it may or may not provide, as an opportunity for someone at some stage to flood any email address I might provide with spam etc. Just posting to see if anyone has any particular knowledge of this hi5 site and knows of any particular downsides that might be attached to it. |
rugila (214) | ||
| 361516 | 2005-06-06 00:28:00 | Pop hi5 in to Google. Lots of results. | Scouse (83) | ||
| 361517 | 2005-06-06 02:18:00 | Would you sign up for an online service where they won't let you in if you don't provide your gmail password? | andrew93 (249) | ||
| 361518 | 2005-06-06 13:38:00 | Im on Hi5 A friend asked me to sign up No spam recieved It allows you in without you telling them you email password, just click no or whatever it said. Its not that amazing Superoman |
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| 361519 | 2005-06-06 23:14:00 | Responses appreciated . Pop hi5 in to Google . Lots of results . Yes, Google is usually the first place to investigate for this sort of thing . But embarras de choix . Following Goethe’s adage “In this world there are so many echoes and so few voices”, I was trying to find out what the voices on Pressf1 if any had to say about this site . Would you sign up for an online service where they won't let you in if you don't provide your gmail password?No . But I’m still puzzled by the motivation behind this site . Is it just a friendly, non-profit, “just want to help people get together” sort of thing, or is there more? I suppose the best thing is to contact Jo and see if she opened her address book to them, and if so, what her reason was . Im on Hi5 A friend asked me to sign up No spam recievedThe reassurance is appreciated . But my friend asked all my 3 email addresses in her address book to sign up, and the same email came to each one (with only my email name changed), even tho’ she knows the same person (me) would get each one . The emails did all source from her, although they were clearly not written by her . The desire to do something for a friend is pretty strong in most of us, and sellers of email addresses for eventual spam purposes (or worse) seem to be now be trying this method of getting hold of valid addresses, since many of their older methods have run into strongly diminishing returns . www . bebo . com uses a very similar means of getting hold of plenty of valid email addresses . |
rugila (214) | ||
| 361520 | 2005-06-06 23:31:00 | Yes my 2 year old son likes Hi 5 Lot's of singing and Dancing. pressf1.pcworld.co.nz I like it too for the talenthttp://pressf1.pcworld.co.nz/images/smilies/smile.gif |
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| 361521 | 2005-06-06 23:31:00 | Hi5, don't they do that terrible program in the mornings for kids to watch. | Jeremy (1197) | ||
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