Monday, April 9, 2012

WAYN

Where Are You Now.com

WAYN is the fastest growing travel and lifestyle social networking community website in the world.


The profile above was created after I received an invitation (6 April 2012):


The disturbing aspect of WAYN is that when you "join-up" you enter your email address and then it tries to get you to log-in to your email account so that it can look in your contacts list. While this seems a reasonable thing to do, especially if you were trying to make contact with lost friends, it is not obvious what is going on.
WAYN say that they do not share your email and password, I don't think that they can be trusted. They say "check your address book" when they really mean "let us look in your address book and add all the emails you have there, so that we can contact all that we find there".

Seeing as I had previously received an invitation from someone with a very similar sounding name to "connect on LinkedIn" - 13 March 2012, I was highly suspicious.

1 comment:

Saskatoon said...

Was looking from a link from the website