Did Arianna really follow my boards? Did she actually click follow, or is pinterest lying spam and she just uploaded her friends list and lied to me? Why doesn't pinterest have 1-click unsubscribe? Oh yeah, they're spammers. Isn't it illegal to do bogus marketing like this without unsubscribe and your aaddress and phone number at the bottom?
From: Pinterest <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:04:15 -0000
To: <[email protected]>
ReplyTo: [email protected]
Subject: Arianna Huffington is following you on Pinterest
Hi Jason,
Arianna Huffington started following all of your pinboards. Follow Arianna back.
Happy Pinning!
- Ben and the Pinterest Team
---Change your email preferences. • Invite your friends to Pinterest.
Thank you for bringing this up, I thought I was the only one. We love making infographs of Pinterest growth rates and are bedazzled at what they could be worth but it's almost blasphemy to call them out on what's helping them get there.
Step 1: We're not sure if we can invite you to our red carpet club of 20 million VIPs, but you'll find out in a few days.
Step 2: You can only enter through social login and can only disconnect later (which states "We NEVER post without your permission" and it actually says it is to reduce spam)
Step 3: People think you followed them and feel like they have a responsibility to keep Pinning, however this is just an automated "subscription notification" your new friend Arianna Pinterest.
This tactic is going to be replicated over and over again but with less pretty and popular products that will immediately get slapped on the wrist.
Posted by: A Facebook User | 04/12/2012 at 05:55 PM