Tongue in cheek?
Of course.
It would seem as though the Google+ grip on your Gmail is being used as a new kind of spam. This isn’t the first direct message I’ve gotten nor the first event I’ve been invited to like this.
I would say this is probably the sixth or seventh of these invites I’ve recieved:
Special event?
Nope.
This is an invite for their Sunday morning church service. Honestly, it’s not that bad of an idea.
Invites go out, people say they’re going, and boom! Your churches service trickles through several Circles on Google+. It’s a good idea on the surface, but baring notification fatigue, this ends-up feeling more like spam than it does outreach.
Sharing these kind of events in your own space is one thing, but when you start dropping these straight into peoples inboxes I think you’ve moved past online evangelism to spam.
What do you think?
Considering that all these invites have been sent to me have been from churches in the United States, I am assuming the multiple senders neglected to do any kind of target audience analysis as I am, after all, living in Italy. #wahwah
If you’re using Google+ in this manner, you might want to rethink your strategy.
Joanna says
Apart from being a bit annoying I’d have to question the effectiveness of a strategy like this. People might come to church due to a personal invitation, but I kinda doubt that many people who are not church attenders would find a generic invitation that has obviously been sent to lots of people compelling enough to overcome whatever the reason was they aren’t already attending church.
Eric Dye says
Agreed.
Matt Steen says
This is my latest annoyance with G+: all these invites that get sent out, and put on my calendar.
It is just adding to the noise that I am trying to filter out.
Eric Dye says
Exactly!
Salt Formation says
What if you had the congregation to send it to their friends as a invite?
Eric Dye says
I think inviting a personal friend on a one-to-one basis, one time is completely different. Just like with email, this is what divides spam from personal messages.