Make sure you enter in this information exactly as shown above.
See you soon!
Sincerely,
The Crush Master
So I went to the site, and after collecting my registration information, it asked me to enter the names and email addresses of my friends (at least, the ones I have crushes on.) If they find a match, they tell me and the "crush."
Otherwise, they send a mail like the above to everyone I listed, telling them that someone (i.e. me) has a crush on them.
They have a legitimate-looking privacy policy, but I just don't want to take the chance that I could be selling out my friends' email addresses to some bulk commercial mailing list.
I've been burned by this sort of online romance exploitation before-- a certain paid personal ads site placed fake ads in mailboxes of people listing free personal ads on Yahoo!. I got one that said something like "You sound interesting and attractive! Come read my profile on http://..." and of course I couldn't read their profile until I gave all of my marketing information to this paid personal ad site. And once I had turned over my vital statistics, it turned out the owner of the profile didn't exist. When I went back and reread the original message, I realized how generic it was. It could have applied to 80% of the personal ads on Yahoo!.
But that's a different story. So what do you think,/. users? Cyber-cherubs or email address harvesters? I think I've gotten too cynical to risk it. It really bums me out how some money-grubbing spammers will even exploit the loneliness of others to get what they want.
Of course, if you're really cynical, you'll assume I just posted this message as a heavily disguised ad for CyberLink. Heh.
-Caitlin
Speaking as another bisexual female programmer, I don't think we should portray programmer men as attractive mates for pretty little females at all. I think we should portray them as suitable mates for the scores of lonely scab-encrusted behemoth women who are intelligent enough to appreciate the beautiful internal logic of the warped minds in their gelatinous undersunned bodies.
I can't tell you how many times I frustratedly tried to get the attention of a seemingly intelligent male who only had eyes for airhead princesses who goggled stupidly at his witty comments. Although I tried to tell myself that they were just too insecure to want to date someone who was as smart as they were, I'm sure it also had something to do with the fact that they were unwilling to open themselves up to the possibility that they might date someone who looked less than perfect. As if dating an average-looking, intelligent women was somehow admitting that they also were less than perfect looking. Or something.
However, speaking as another bisexual female programmer, I also think that we should create a militant faction of cyberdykes and create a futuristic outpost somewhere in Montana where we will develop plans for our mind-control ray with which we will take over the world.
Slashdot Mirror
Otherwise, they send a mail like the above to everyone I listed, telling them that someone (i.e. me) has a crush on them.
They have a legitimate-looking privacy policy, but I just don't want to take the chance that I could be selling out my friends' email addresses to some bulk commercial mailing list.
I've been burned by this sort of online romance exploitation before-- a certain paid personal ads site placed fake ads in mailboxes of people listing free personal ads on Yahoo!. I got one that said something like "You sound interesting and attractive! Come read my profile on http://..." and of course I couldn't read their profile until I gave all of my marketing information to this paid personal ad site. And once I had turned over my vital statistics, it turned out the owner of the profile didn't exist. When I went back and reread the original message, I realized how generic it was. It could have applied to 80% of the personal ads on Yahoo!.
But that's a different story. So what do you think, /. users? Cyber-cherubs or email address harvesters? I think I've gotten too cynical to risk it. It really bums me out how some money-grubbing spammers will even exploit the loneliness of others to get what they want.
Of course, if you're really cynical, you'll assume I just posted this message as a heavily disguised ad for CyberLink. Heh. -Caitlin
Speaking as another bisexual female programmer, I don't think we should portray programmer men as attractive mates for pretty little females at all. I think we should portray them as suitable mates for the scores of lonely scab-encrusted behemoth women who are intelligent enough to appreciate the beautiful internal logic of the warped minds in their gelatinous undersunned bodies.
I can't tell you how many times I frustratedly tried to get the attention of a seemingly intelligent male who only had eyes for airhead princesses who goggled stupidly at his witty comments. Although I tried to tell myself that they were just too insecure to want to date someone who was as smart as they were, I'm sure it also had something to do with the fact that they were unwilling to open themselves up to the possibility that they might date someone who looked less than perfect. As if dating an average-looking, intelligent women was somehow admitting that they also were less than perfect looking. Or something.
However, speaking as another bisexual female programmer, I also think that we should create a militant faction of cyberdykes and create a futuristic outpost somewhere in Montana where we will develop plans for our mind-control ray with which we will take over the world.