What is the Proper Etiquette?
Mashable.com is having a lunchtime pole today (yeah, yeah I know…I love the site) asking readers what their favorite iPhone applications are…
As I’m reading I notice that within the first 20 comments there are two people pimping their own app.
First was Jason Wong:
zing! but I built it. Is that so wrong? After that’s Birdfeed, Byline, Facebook & Defender Chronicles.
Jason’s comment didn’t bother me. I love the name of his app and at least he participated in the pole by listing off some nice other apps on the iPhone he likes.
The comment that got me thinking about this was one by Tom Sprows:
I have to say QpixL. I love asking questions with pictures and posting it to my FB and Twitter accounts. http://www.QpixL.com
I guess what bothered me is that Tom’s comment screamed “Hey everyone I created this and it’s awesome” without any disclosure at all. How do I know Tom is the founder? I didn’t. I went to the site and sure enough on the front page there was the quote “This app with change the way you ask questions - Tom Sprows, Founder” (see screenshot).
I guess it’s just interesting to me that one commenter now has me interested in his application (Jason and Zing!) and another couldn’t have turned me off more.
I think it’s perfectly alright to be proud of something you’ve created and I also don’t doubt that Mr Sprows loves his QpixL so much that it might be his favorite app…but there are undoubtedly other apps he loves and next time he should share them too.
