"Fake" agents...
What do you guys think of the "fake" chats with "fake" agents, that "lie" and say they are "real" agents.
I.e., it's just a marketing message, if you navigate away from the page, it says "Hey wait! I'm a pretty girl! Look at my pretty picture! Don't you want to talk to me before navigating away?"
So then you are like, hmm. Well, I do need a date... so... what the heck. And then you type in the word "bot", it responds "hee hee! I'm a real live agent!". So you type in the word "bot" 5-10 more times, it responds with the exact same message. You swear, it says "Don't be RUDE!". But then you ask a simple question... "What is 1+1?" And... it can't answer it... then you realize that pretty girl you thought was a pretty girl is just designed to be a marketing tactic to get you to sign up... (so no internet dating this time )
Now... being more serious:
The software does this:
1. Looks for certain keywords ("bot", any swear word, etc) and has canned responses (I.e., "I'm real!" or "Don't be rude!").
2. If it doesn't recognize any canned responses, it goes through a 5-10 line/paragraph marketing script.
3. It tries to fool you into thinking it is a "real" person by saying things like "Mary is typing a message..." (just like MSN, etc).
4. If you are "inactive", has another canned response (say after 5 seconds), again to try to 'fool' you into believing it is a real person. Like "Oh my! Have you left? Well, if you have, how about checking out product XYZ..."
My question:
What do you think of stuff like this? There is nothing wrong with "making" money -- but when you try to use deceptive tactics to "dupe" people into believing it is real, or dupe them into purchasing, do you think it is right? Kind of along the lines of fake blogs ("flogs"), etc, etc.? It basically assumes people are dumb, and attempts to "trick" them into doing something.
Would you do it?
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