I receive a weekly email from travel social networking site Dopplr telling me all about people’s trips. Sadly, these are people (spam bots?) I don’t know or really care about. How did that happen?? Here’s how I imagine it happened…
Dopplr-tard: “Let’s get rid of mutual friends.”
Social Media Fanboy: “Like Twitter?”
Dopplr-tard: “Twitter is so hot right now.”
Social Media Fanboy: “But my location should be private unless I share it with someone else!”
Dopplr-tard: “Well, how about the opposite? I choose to share trips with you! Then you can see anything I send you and we don’t need to be mutual friends.”
Social Media Fanboy: “Brilliant! But what if I don’t want to see someone’s trips?”
Dopplr-tard: “Then you can just ‘mute’ them.”
ON A ONE-BY-ONE BASIS.
Useless and a complete waste of any Cute Girl’s time. I’d quit the service except that their Facebook app is pretty and I have some major carbon guilt.
Update: Matt, I like Dopplr and you can do so much better than this. Please bring back mutual friends and friend requests.
