Pass the Quechup from the left hand side.....

No sooner does Facebook realise it has to reign in its spamming applications developers than new SocNet Quechup decides the best way of getting big is to play fast and loose with other people's email address books. We've had two Quechup friend requests, neither of which were sent knowingly. It would appear to look at your address book and fire off "join me" mails to all and sundry it finds, without your agreement, when you look up friends on the network.

And it looks like I'm not the only one who is disgruntled

At the risk of sounding like an Old Drum on issues of Privacy and Identity, this serves to warn y'all what happens when people who don't take their scruples get loose on the web....again. And as others also point out, this is akin to spam programs and you risk alienating your network to boot.

Quechup for those who don't know is actually a dating site, not a social network per se (though some would no doubt argue there is little real difference....)

Pete Cashmore over at Mashable has some more gen on this , as does Sam Sethi at Blognation