Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat » AIM Archives – Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat http://blog.fosketts.net Understanding the accumulation of data Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:40:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Liv Greene and McLovin12Four – My New Friends? http://blog.fosketts.net/2008/01/14/liv-greene-and-mclovin12four-my-new-friends/ http://blog.fosketts.net/2008/01/14/liv-greene-and-mclovin12four-my-new-friends/#comments Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:16:20 +0000 Stephen http://blog.fosketts.net/2008/01/14/liv-greene-and-mclovin12four-my-new-friends/ AOL seems to have invented a whole new way to annoy us all with advertisements: injected AIM buddy bots!  Yes, it’s another way that social networking companies are annoying the very users they (supposedly) covet!

Last month it was McLovin12Four, a buddy bot that apparently had little to say but was a paid advertisement for the December 4th DVD release of Superbad. Get it – 12Four? But only someone who had seen the (pretty funny) movie would catch the McLovin reference…

Well, today my (gtalk) buddy list was invaded by “Liv Greene“, a shill for the web site, Greenopolis. And check out the astroturf-with-a-hammer campaign on AOL’s bot page! Way to get your bot ranked number one!

I’m so sick of this. Note to all social network providers: Never inject a new “friend” into my network without my consent.

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