Creative Spamming by Blog community on MyBlogLog

Yesterday I received a message from the owner of Blogmemes.be. Don't ask me who the owner is or even what that website is about, or even what language it is written in. The message was pretty interesting. The author wanted me to one of the co-authors of the blog community on MyBlogLog.

For a minute I wondered, why should I be the co-author. Was my blog that impressive enough for the website owner to declare me a co-author in his MBL community. But then, it is after all in the MyBlogLog community. There is no binding. Then, the evil side of my brain warned that it could be a prank. What if the owner was on a rampage adding everyone he stumbled upon at MBL as his co-author. Not likely, but then possible.

At the end of the message, there was a link for me to click in order to accept the invitation. I clicked on it, but landed up merely on the community page. I was still not the co-author. Probably was this because I was still not a member of the community? I looked at the numbers. There were around 400 members of the community. I thought, maybe I should give one another chance. I joined the community, and then went back to the message and clicked the link again. Uh..No difference in where I landed now.

I then slowly scrolled down the messages written by the other community members.There were several messages. Just quoting one of them:

Looks like I'm not the only one with a mysterious invite in my inbox. Hmm. Interesting spammy way to get eyeballs to your site, though just adding someone to your contact list would have been easier & less intrusive to us all.

Now, I check back after a day. There are over 620 members. Wow! One of the hottest in-things on MyBlogLog heh!??