A PSA (of sorts).

BoingBoing's Xeni Jardin blurbed about it.

Dwight Silverman wrote about it.

Jay Lee was nailed by it.

What is it?

It's called Quechup, and it's a new social networking site which seems to employ a very special kind of internet asshattery in fetching new members. If you accept the invitation and create an account, it will spam everyone in your address book. Do yourself a favor and simply delete the invitations.

So far today, I've gotten a little over a dozen of these things in my inbox, and I expect there may be more on the way.

Consider it a handy little heads-up, okay?

Oh. And if you do sign up for Quechup, do your friends a favor and empty your address book before doing so (or, at least remove ME from the list). After all, you may wind up like this poor guy who found his gmail account suspended as a result of Quechup's temerity.

-DP