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Re: Forget Google, Now MyBlogLog Adds Friends without Your Consent

Beginner Yoga Exercises — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:00:39 -0000

Sounds like the customer service is sending you a message to be able to close out the ticket without actually solving the problem.

Re: Forget Google, Now MyBlogLog Adds Friends without Your Consent

Carolina Panthers Blog — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:28:21 -0000

I agree with the comment above. These "tech issues" are getting out of hand.

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Re: Forget Google, Now MyBlogLog Adds Friends without Your Consent

Utah SEO Pro — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:22:32 -0000

That's a spammers dream come true.

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PS3 — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:51:49 -0000

If the exploit (if that what it is) get's into the wild, the place will be full of spammers in no time at all. Sounds more than just a "bug"?

Re: Forget Google, Now MyBlogLog Adds Friends without Your Consent

Nick Stamoulis — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:10:33 -0000

Wow this is crazy. I too am surprised that they have made it this far. They must be loosing users since the are "having tech issues".

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Re: Forget Google, Now MyBlogLog Adds Friends without Your Consent

Mr Marketing — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:07:21 -0000

Im surprised MBL even got this far. Did not they always have these problems?

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Re: Forget Google, Now MyBlogLog Adds Friends without Your Consent

Warenwirtschaft — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:06:48 -0000

It is a common problem that you file a complaint and get an answer to a problem you didnt complain about. Customer-Care-People just dont read the text anymore, they just look for an easy answer that MAY have a connection to the problem. Then they fire it off. Problem solved. Next question.

Re: Forget Google, Now MyBlogLog Adds Friends without Your Consent

Nicole Price — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:14:23 -0000

Actually, I have been seeing some sudden activity from the MBL. They had been quite quiet for sometime and may be their sudden inspiration after the recent seismic activity they have become active!

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Re: Forget Google, Now MyBlogLog Adds Friends without Your Consent

Ashley — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:57:18 -0000

I think MBL should pay more attention to their tech equipment and have a sufficient tech customer service, otherwise the majority of its users will refuse to use it

Re: Forget Google, Now MyBlogLog Adds Friends without Your Consent

Tiffany — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:14:20 -0000

I can imagine how annoying that was. I think MBL has server hiccups problems instead of being hacked.

Re: Forget Google, Now MyBlogLog Adds Friends without Your Consent

Jordan McCollum — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:07:07 -0000

@Ian—I'm not receiving friend requests from the first person anymore. I received a total of seven emails about the second person.

But the problem here is that they're automatically being added to my friends list without my consent. I'm not very happy about receiving notifications that I've added a friend when I haven't.

Re: Forget Google, Now MyBlogLog Adds Friends without Your Consent

Goran Web Design — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:00:16 -0000

Privacy is something that cannot be taken for granted, its one way to ruin a brand.

Re: Forget Google, Now MyBlogLog Adds Friends without Your Consent

Ian Kennedy — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:38:06 -0000

Correction - the person you were reporting before *is* on your Block List. If you are still getting friend requests from this person, please let me know because we are unable to reproduce what is obviously a bug.

We had tested and confirmed a fix, obviously this isn't the case!

Ian

Re: Forget Google, Now MyBlogLog Adds Friends without Your Consent

Jordan McCollum — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:34:03 -0000

@Ian—Thanks for your comment. I have only blocked the first of the four users that this has happened with. I hesitate to use their user names because at this point I don't know whether they've hacked MBL and are exploiting it or whether it's an internal problem with MBL.

Re: Forget Google, Now MyBlogLog Adds Friends without Your Consent

Ian Kennedy — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:28:36 -0000

Hi Jordon,

I'm so sorry you are still getting un-prompted contact emails. If they are from the same member that you reported was sending you email a few weeks ago, I just checked and confirmed that they *are not* on your Block List.

http://www.mybloglog.com/bu...

Go to the last message that you received and Click on [Report Spam] to add them to your Block List and you should never get an email or friend request from them again.

Ian
Product Guy, MyBlogLog

Re: Forget Google, Now MyBlogLog Adds Friends without Your Consent

Seo Positive — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:49:56 -0000

Sounds to me like you are having some major server hiccups there. I agree with the huge amounts of spam too from experience.

Re: Forget Google, Now MyBlogLog Adds Friends without Your Consent

Otilia Otlacan — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:44:27 -0000

Jordan, I had the same happening to me a number of times over the past week, with contacts added without permission - I haven't escalated yet, my mistake. MyBlogLog is a tool I use daily and I found it to be quite useful, it would be a pity if security and privacy issues will ruin the fun. Seems like Yahoo takes hit after hit these days...

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