Oh. My. GOD.
A few months back I wrote a post about the way GoodReads is set up and how I almost accidentally sent an invitation to “Join me on GoodReads!” to every person in my address book. Well…this time I did it.
And it wasn’t just in my address book! Every single person who has ever sent me an email at my gmail account…well guess what? They’re all getting invitations to “Join me on GoodReads!”
I thought I was sending one, ONE invitation (to you, Jeanne). The stupidass thing said “Are you sure?” and I was all like, “Yeah I’m sure, of course I’m sure!” and I clicked ok. Then the fucking thing said You have just sent invitations to 44 friends!
Ugh. Dammit! Why is it set up like that? Why why WHY?!
I’m filing this post under humiliation.
It’s not just GoodReads but every applications stupid invitation system that I hate these days. They don’t make it perfectly clear that they are trying to send invites to your whole address book – it almost seems like a step you are required to complete in order to use the application and that is just not right. It’s difficult to see that you can bypass it so I think that is how a lot of people accidentally end up doing this. No worries, Wendy. We still love you. π
Thank you for loving me even if I’ve spammed everyone I know. Oh my God, the reality just hit me: I’m like a freaking SPAMMER! (lol just a little) And you’re so right, these applications are way beyond my comprehension, I should never go to the “Add Friends” option on anything. Seriously, I think I’ve sent invitations to relatives who don’t even speak to me anymore because my blog is so humiliating to them. BUCK GOT ONE FROM ME TO EVERY EMAIL ADDRESS HE HAS! What does that mean for me? And jeepers, I just realized, I they’ve gone to my daughter’s friends whom I’ve never met.
Halloween has come early this year.
P.S. – Thank you for my award. I’m coming over…I’ve been offline for days, possibly weeks. But I’m coming over.
Well, first off.. .this picture is hilarious. Absolutely perfect for the blog. Second, this is funny because I JUST sent you an email about how great you are about good reads.
Also, if it helps you, I didn’t get an email!
I know you sent me that email, and I was really flattered and thought, Do I really keep up with that account? and went over to re-read my own stuff and yours too. And you’re right, I do seem to keep it updated. And I like reading other people’s books because it gives me ideas about what I want to read next. BUT THIS IS HUMILIATING. I believe the reason you didn’t get an inviation is because it’s only tapped my gmail account, and maybe you and I always use my AIM account? Oh MFG who knows. WHO KNOWS WHAT THEY’VE DONE TO ME?! I’m pretty sure invitations have gone out to people who’ve sent me chainmail, as well customer service people from iTunes when I couldn’t figure out how to use mine!
Oh the agony of Internet humiliation.
I got three invites. How’s that? LMAO. Obviously Goodreads didn’t spend any money in the usability department. I didn’t mind getting the invites.
NOOOOOOO! Three invites? UGH! (but lol-ing just the same)
This is going to be a horror show…it’s not real friends like you that I’m worried about, it’s the people I barely know that I’m concerned about. And Buck’s friends from high school who wrote me for his email address to update their class reunion mailing list. The ripple effect is what frightens me. And geez, you and I are already friends over there, so that means it’s sending invitations to people who are already my friends?! Ugh. My daughter is going to have a meltdown if she gets invitations, thinking I’m unaware that we’re already friends over there.
And hey, what about people that I’ve invited in the past and didn’t respond because they don’t want to join (which doesn’t bother me at all)? They’re going to think I’m demanding they join!
UGH.
I feel dumb, what are good read?
GoodReads.com is like an online book club, except everyone is reading whatever the hell they want and then giving a little review of it. It could be as simple as “I hated this book” or as complicated as a New York Times book review. If you’re a reader it’s fun to see what everybody else is reading. You si sign up to be friends with people you know who are also members, which makes it easier to see what your friends are reading. But the’ve got it set it up kind of tricky for people with gmail, and if you say you’d like to send invitations to people in your address book you could end up accidentally sending invitations to everyone in your address book. Which I did. So I sent invitations to people who probably don’t even know who I am, and invitations to people who know me and are aleady on my friend list. Little Miss got three invitations from me yesterday, and we were already friends. So, basically, I’m a moron. But hey, if you join, friend us up!
I have a little something for you on my latest post…
Cool, I’m coming ovah…
hahaaha….I was wondering what that was, and I couldn’t figure out if it was you saying only to me “Hi Romi, come join me!”….lol…hilarious π
Oh God. I can only imagine what people are thinking…
You inivted me…and even though it was an accident, I’m glad you did!!! It’s awesome! I love it! π
I would have invited you on purpose. π
and so, yea, you invite me and then not reply to my YES! I’ll be your friend! what’s up with that?
whatever. I did think that it was odd that you also invited my hub to join you…
WTF, I invited your husband too?! Oh God, this is so humiliating. I will definitely reply YES to you! I need to go check my email…I’ve been kinda scared to look at it, but now that I know you’re there, I’m feeling a better. π
LOL, Wendy. I accepted your invitation this weekend and now I am reading this blog post from earlier in the week. I don’t know if you invited me on purpose or by accident, but either way we ended up friends. That’s pretty funny.
Well, I’m just glad we’re friends. Put some coffee on, I’m just pulling into your driveway now… π
Ha! I was invited as well. It prompted my post today. π But thanks for inviting me. Interesting site.
I’ve been way out of the picture lately, but I’m coming over to read your post… π
oh my god. thank god i am not the only one. i just joined goodreads and tried to invite ONE friend, and it sent 317 invitations!!! ex-boyfriends, professors, work contacts, EVERYONE i have ever emailed on gmail. i am SO MORTIFIED.
Oh Jeezus! It’s so humiliating. They need to fix that thing so this doesn’t happen anymore. All you can do is pretend it never happened. That’s what I’m trying to do. The amazing thing is the number of people who responded and joined! I guess that’s a good thing. Hey, are we friends on there? We should be, now that we have this humiliation in common. π
Godddd, so embarrassing. Ok, I sent the “sorry everyone” damage control email. Hopefully this will blow over easily…:(
http://outofshell.wordpress.com/2008/11/09/goodreads-or-how-to-spam-your-entire-gmail-contact-list-with-mortifying-personal-details/
Hello again! (it’s Katie/ShoeLaLa – same person, two blogs, but you can tell it’s me from the shoe avatar!) π
I am happy to report that the goodreads humiliation seems to have blown over. I am also taking the “pretend it never happened” route, post “sorry” emails of course. I figure, no one can really think too ill of me for this, since it happens to everyone, right?
Would love to be friends on there, except that I deleted my account the moment that I got burned, and every time someone says “goodreads” my brain goes “GRRR!” so I don’t think I will be re-joining anytime soon π
Anyway, to make up for it, tell me your favourite book that you’ve read recently! I recently read “Tuesdays with Morrie” by Mitch Albom, and it was really awesome.
Oh the humiliation that GoodReads has caused! I just finished Company of Liars and I liked it a lot. I don’t know what I’ll read next. I have a stack of books in my office that I need to tackle. π
ha!! hey, i got one of those invitations from you. π
And the humiliation continues… π
I just did that!
414 invitations..
OMG. It’s so tricky over there, I’m paranoid now.
I found your blog post because the same thing happened to me. Signed up for Goodreads, made sure to “uncheck all” in the list of Gmail contacts that I could invite, then only checked two people that I knew would be interested. Today I find that my *entire* list has been spammed!
They need to fix that thing. It’s embarrassing and it makes you not want to click on anything over there!