So yeah. The Internet. With the emergence of new and interesting services rises, the ability to accidentally annoy a large body of people simultaenously does as well. This is compounded by the use of mobile technologies and integration with SMS. Let me recap my accident today.
I signed up at the new web-service Blippr. It’s a neat service that allows you to “quickly” review books, movies, music, and games. “Cool.” I thought. And it had integration with Twitter. “neato!” I thought. I didn’t think things through fully.
For the next 10 minutes, I gleefully navigated around Blippr, rating movies, games, artists and the like. I probably reviewed 20, 30 things.
An hour later, I get an instant message.
Stephen: dude do you know how much your blippr spammed all your twitter followers? like <——————————this—————————–> much
dep: oops. shit!
Stephen: you’ve been relegated to my twitterific feed
Little did a realize, that on every single review, Twitter was happily updating my public feed, snappily sending SMS updates to EVERYONE on my twitter list whenever I said I liked a movie. Needless to say I felt horrible.
So, is the blame on Blippr for not making the weight of my decision a bit more clearly defined? Or is the blame solely on myself for not realizing the implications of my actions upon sign-up? Should Blippr be chastised for adding to the ever-mounting “noise of the web” ? Perhaps we’re both to blame. But most of all, I’m just really sorry for spamming everyone!
