SpeedDate destroys yet another Facebook app.
Even if I was single, I would never, ever use SpeedDate. Besides the premise of speed dating being fundamentally stupid (20 second to decide if you even slightly like someone? Yeah, I see that being successful.), their entire PR business model is to buy non-dating Facebook apps for the users, destroy the application, and turn it into their sleazy SpeedDate application. They've done it yet again, this time to the Bless You app, and managed to piss off even more Facebook users than they did when they destroyed Oregon Trail.
It seems their user-hungry, smarmy business practices are blowing up in their face, and I hope it continues to do so. Companies need to realize that doing business like spammers and con men isn't the way to go. Sure you may get sheer numbers of email addresses but you have thousands of people like me using those very same social networking sites to tell everyone they know about how unethical and sleazy your business is. Numbers aren't anything if your reputation sucks.
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posted by HelenAngel @ 5:45 AM
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