Hoverspot Review
(This was a review I originally wrote over at buzznetworker.com. While I have rewritten any reviews I did over there I have to say I refuse to do so with Hoverspot. The site is one of the biggest pieces of crap out there and I refuse to spend one extra second of my time looking at it.)
Site: Hoverspot.com
Users: Honestly… I don’t care on this one…
Features: Normally I would sit here and try to pick out some of the different features of the website that are redeeming qualities, however there is no such thing with hoverspot. It just feel like someone decided to start a social networking website with some friends with the goal of jamming advertising down my throat.
It has the point system that we see on some of the other social networking sites, but it seem less about participating and encouraging people to view content than to get people to whore the site out to new people. It just feels like a giant MLM scheme to me.
Review: I would rather jab a spork into my eyeball than ever go back to that site again. Needless to say I am not going to recommend the site, in fact I might openly root for them to go out of business.
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This wevsite, HoverSpot, is nothing but spamming trash. If there was ever a nuisance on the Internet, it is HoverSpot.
On October 24th, 2008, I had just returned from the hospital where I had undergone surgery.
I received an invitation from a relative to join HoverSpot. I had never heard of it before. I had also never joined any networking group before (twiter, myspace, etc) because I wasn’t comfortable with them and their privacy issues.
To my knowledge, neither had my relative. When I received it, even though it was out of character for him, my immediate reaction was to “accept”, thinking this was a secure website (later I discovered he was totally ignorant of this “invitation” and like myself, had never heard of HoverSpot).
I just happened to have two pages open on my Yahoo e-mail account when I clicked, “accept”.
Simoultaneously, I received an invitation from myself to join HoverSpot. I knew I’d been hacked.
It took five weeks before I was finally able to contact someone with HoverSpot and demand this be stopped. My so called account should already be deleted. I have a response to this effect in my archived e-mails.
Since then, I’ve received angry response from even close business associates, informing me that they’ve received as many as six invitations since Oct 24, allegedly from me to join this trash and I didn’t want in the first place.
Today, 24Feb2009, I’ve just been notifed again by distant relatives that they are now receiving the seventh “invitation” allegedly from me to join HoverSpot.
If I had my wishes, they would loose their privileges for internet access.
This is a useless spamming racket that provide not valuable function except to invade e-dress address books and hack them.
HoverSpot is trash and their so called management is not listed anywhere. There is no contact phone number or address that I’ve found.
The only time I sucessfully contacted anyone was by subscribing to PrivateEye.Com, and getting a confirmed access.
Apparently this contact and a demand for them to cease and desist has been without results.
I’m contacting the FCC about them; I hope this will be sucessful.
I hope everyone reading this realizes the contempt I have for HoverSpot and what a useless, treacherous website it is.
Leave it alone if at all possible and delete all emails from them or anyone else alleging invitations to join.
hey i’m new and i need boy edvice
sup peep i’m new
Steve… I had an account and deleted it myself no problem in the account settings. I also used the address book thing and had no problems. I just unchecked the people I didn’t want to send it to. Maybe you didn’t read the page? I actually had another one of my emails on my contacts that I invited and only got 2 invites. I liked the site but just didn’t have the time for it.
Well I’m not sure if that’s the type of email I got from them. I got an invitation ages ago from a friend who was active there. (Maybe like 2 years ago)
Only recently I went to the site again cause of an email I got in my inbox notifying me of a message I have received. I notice my friend is no longer there, probably cause of everything you guys have said.
The annoying thing I have experienced is getting random girls messaging me like, what’s up and how’s it going, and I responded really confused why girls would message me like that and then the response is exactly them same or a similar phrase, so how’s it going? and after asking why they are acting like this, it’s all the same!!!
idk if there’s a catch or some reason they do that, I even emailed the help team and told them about this nuisance but they didn’t respond. I will delete my account though. Absolutely pointless site. Confusing and hideous design.
dina, i have the same issue random chicks messaging me sayin things like kewl are those new pics and hey whats up and do you still come around here and i did like u did and sent a confused message back and id get the same exact message she sent me in the first place at first i thought its spam but there profiles look legit so its weird and they dont try and direct me to any websites i think there just tryin to confuse ppl
I believe all the “secrecy” and confusion behind Hoverspot is a simple one .Through personal experience , It appears to be a “front” for adult “entertainment” services. That would explain all the e-mails from women responding to messages I never sent or claiming that I did . Their persistance by themselves and their “friends” to contact me was extremely annoying (up to 20 e-mails a day)Although account deletion is not that difficult , they make it a pain in the butt to accomplish just that. My advice : Don’t waste your time , you’ll regret it . There are plenty of more sensible alternatives out there .
hoverspot can suck my left nut and make the right one jelous!!!
what good ones are out there besides myspace and hover
I just got a message on hoverspot, when I answered the window had come up with some symantic page notifing me that an attempt had been made to change my home page.
I’ve never heard of it :D