As soon as some thoughtless moron gets a Windows Live Mail invite from the official Microsoft Beta testing group, he decides to post it on his blog and every forum he visits, and spam messages everyone on his messenger list (which could total to 0 if he actually does this). Then the process of the gathering of other similar morons starts.
Blog post / forum post / spam message:
“You know someone is leet when he gets invited to use a leet program — Windows Live Messenger!
It is the most awesome program EVER! Like oh my god!”
As the other morons on the Internet have nothing better to do than to search “Live Messenger Invite” on every search engine that hasn’t banned their IP’s, they eventually come and see that message (although I doubt the search engines will ever crawl through a mindless moron’s blog anyway):
“You are the leet! Can I have an invite please? I really really need one.”
Why do you need one? So you can waste more resources on this earth for a messenger program? So you can save the cruelty used against the animals in the Microsoft Beta testing by using the program yourself? Or so you can post on your little blog (and forum and everyone on your messenger list) about how you got an invite for Live Messenger? That’s right.
It’s become more of a meme! Not that I don’t like memes, the whole invite thing has gotten out of hand. The Gmail started the whole invitation idea and everyone just copied until (almost) every blogger became a moron. I’m one of the few. :) As for the invites, now it’s just lame.
You can expect a review of Live Messenger soon, similar to the style of the MSN Messenger 7 review.
And yes I’ve got a couple of Live Messenger invites if anyone wants them. :)
Messenger Live Beta has been opened to public — you no longer need an invite to use it.
I have a few too. If you can find out how to contact me for one then you deserve one.
But heck, they got what they wanted, didn’t they? Lots of free promotion.
Brian you are just begging for hits to your site eh? :P
Yeah they sure got what they wanted, lots of free promotion. It seems pretentious when someone does this. I’m doing this, but that’s something else heh.
I have heard that Messenger Live isn’t that great and so havn’t really bothered to look at it. But if you have a spare invite, I might find it useful…
If anyone wants an invite, I have 3 left. On the other hand, just going to http://www1.imagine-msn.com/minisites/messenger/Default.aspx?locale=en-US
worked for two of my friends.
It has 2 features I like: off line messages, when you set your status to off line, you can still chat. And finally, one can rename “OMG skool is out lollzzzz” nicks into normal ones.
Oh, and MS doesn’t need the free promotion. I think they did it because the betas leaked out anyway.
yes yes! I’d like one, please!!! MSN 7.5 hasn’t been nice to me lately…. i’m having problems signing in. my hotmail is umm… (don’t laugh… i was 11 when i made that email add)
The whole invite thing is being used as a marketing tool. At the same time it’s a nice way to roll out a new version gradually and still be able to cope with the many feedback. There is nothing to be mad about. People that are looking for invites are not morons, but are just curious about new tools. They’re called the innovators and will promote the product/service when they like it. I don’t understand why you’re so furious about all that.
I’m not mad about the fact that companies throw out invites to get feedback. I’m annoyed at the fact that too many people take invites too seriously and make a big deal out of them.
But then again, I suppose that could be part of the marketing scheme — to make a big deal out of the product.
from the previous reasons about GMail invites, they’ve added ridiculous reasons. You’re right, people take invites too seriously! What’s so nice from begging for the beggar’s own pleasure, Yahoo 360 was based on invites only, too, but once they got their accounts they abandoned it, for the fact that they’re only curious about it.
Please sent me an invite for live messenger!Thanks a lot!
LOL Oliver, ironic hypocrisy. Is this the new linkbait for idiots?
I like totally agree with you ya know.
I mean, Apple users are so much better than that. They never spam a forum with their latest rant on how great Apple is, and they sure as hell aren’t obsessed with trying to showcase their holy Apple products. Yeah, those MS users are so lame hahaahaa lol
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Can you send me an invite plz & thanks
Haha Jeroen that’s so true.
Ok i dont really really need a invite but i really eally want one so if anyone has one spare please can they send me one, im not gonna beg im just gonna ask nicely
thanx to anyone if they invite me if not thanx anyway
I really DON’T NEED an invite to live messenger Beta…
But I’ll like to receive one ;-)
!OllaOlla
yeah im the same as OllaOlla really, i want to see what its like
can i have an invite?
I wish apple would make a cross platform IM. It would be good wouldn’t it iMessage or iM lol.
iMessage
iM
iChat for Windows.
Maybe they could intergrate a mic into an iPod and put wifi on it and call it the iPod iChat?
All sent. Don’t be surprised if you find it ugly though.
Jack, I think you are thinking of AIM ;)
Hi can you send me an invite please?
While I appreciate you putting down an email address, I feel obligated to tell you that you are going to get spammed for that. You have entered an email address in the email field already and I will see it — don’t publicly display it unless you want horse porn in your inbox.
I removed the emails that you guys posted for your sake.
Hey all howz it goin
If any of ya have any spare invites n wanna send me an invite, that wud b kool.
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I grant you that there are some interesting comments in this article but why not lighten up just a bit.