Tagged is definitely a spam site

June 13, 2007 | Filed Under Social Networks | 4 Comments 

I agree with Dave Taylor; Tagged is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. It’s a total con. I was a “victim” of this site just recently. I got an invitation from a friend of mine so I went to the site to sign up and add myself as their friend. So the site asked me if I wanted to check and see what other friends of mine were already on Tagged. I figured sure why not. So I let it go through my Gmail address book and “check” to see how many people I knew were already on Tagged. Then is said 15 people I knew were already on Tagged and did I want to add them as friends… I figured sure, Why not?

Well what followed was complete horror. I started getting emails from people I haven’t spoken to in a long time asking me why I want them to join me on Tagged. It turns out Tagged spams everyone in your address book. No wonder this site is doing so “well”.

Techcrunch wrote about how Tagged is one of the fastest growing social networks and how they’re now profitable. I think it’s a crime that a site can hide behind completely cheap and unprofessional tactics and be getting recognition.

What I have a hard time understanding is how the folks at Tagged can sit in a room and talk about the product and knowingly come up with all these ridiculous ways of sucking people into their social network. Apparently their CEO Greg Tseng is known as the King of “viral growth”…. Yeah. I have nothing against the people here but c’mon guys, this site is just spamming everyone.

Anyway, here’s some new data on the site. Stats from Comscore and Alexa are pretty consistent. Comscore data isn’t available for June yet but when it is, I hope it tells the same story Alexa does.