Fuck tribe.net
Posted on Mar 9, 2008 in The web
Here’s a quote from an email I just received from tribe.net (for those of you that don’t know Tribe, it’s basically your run-of-the-mill social network, except none of your friends are there):
“We hope you excuse this mass mailing. Some of you getting this email specifically have told us that you don’t want email from tribe.net and we generally don’t send out emails to the entire userbase. We wanted to let you know about the big changes that have happened here at tribe.net, and if you haven’t checked in with us in a while we encourage you to do so.”
Bullshit translator:“Hi! We’re sending you spam, despite promising not to any more”.
So what’s this important news they’ve got to tell everyone, even people that have unsubscribed?
“We’ve listened to our users for solutions to our site instability problems. The overwhelming consensus is that our users love tribe.net so much that they are willing to pay for a premium subscription for all the functions that we now give to you.”
Bullshit translator:“We don’t have any money and Google won’t buy us… can we have some of yours?”
So shilling a new subscription model is so important that Tribe needs to tell users who have specifically told them they’re not interested? Bravo guys, now I really feel like giving your my money and more personal information…