Yaari.com: Ruining Our Lives

Folks, I come to you today to tell you about a spam tragedy.  You see, this week, my spam-lovin’ self became very sad.  Why you ask?  Because of this awful website: YAARI.COM (DO NOT SIGN UP FOR ANYTHING ON THEIR SITE!!!).

I received an email from a friend that looked like this:

subject: joe jones sent you a Friend Request on Yaari

joe jones wants you to join Yaari!
Is joe your friend?
Yes, joe is my friend! No, joe isn’t my friend.

Please respond or joe may think you said no :(

Thanks,
The Yaari Team

Now, “Joe Jones” (fake name alert) is someone I met very recently through a new professional venture of mine.  Although I really did not want to join another social networking site, I also didn’t want to make a bad impression on my new colleague.  Like a good suck-up, I decided I’d join the site.  After all, I wouldn’t have to pass it on to friends, nor would I have to log in unless Joe Jones sent me a message through the site.  All I did was enter a name and password to get my account started. After signing in, my contacts were imported automatically.  All of a sudden, it spammed everyone in my contact list, including my own email address.

My accidental spamming caused a massive eruption of confusion from my friends and coworkers, all asking me, “What’s Yaari?” or “Why would you join that site?”

Apparently, Yaari.com pretends to be a social networking site for Indian youth.  Well, as so rightly described by Kenneth on The Letter Two blog, Yaari.com is “the social networking site for…nobody!”  This site isn’t even real.  If I had made a brief trip to a search engine, I would’ve seen that Yaari.com is notorious for spamming the universe.  Furthermore, if I had read those pesky Terms of Service, I would’ve seen this:

The email address(es) that you supply to use this service will only be used to send invitations to connect with you on Yaari. By registering for the Yaari website, and by giving Yaari member’s email address and password, a member agrees to the Terms of Service and consents to allow Yaari to automatically send an email from the member to member’s contacts, encouraging member’s contacts to register for the Yaari website. Invitation emails will be sent on member’s behalf, with the ‘from’ address set as member’s email address.

Yaari.com, you’ve done no justice for the good in spam.  Worst of all, you’ve made me a spammer that my friends hate, when all I’ve tried to do is show them what makes spam so great.

For more details on why I’m a jackass for signing up to this site, go here.