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"Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all. How do we define this lively darting about with words, of hitting them back and forth, this sort of brief smile of ideas which should be conversation?" Guy de Maupassant

Sunday, December 4, 2005

Opting In and Out of Plaxo

I think I did a stupid thing today. My curiousity got the better of me and I finally got Plaxo. And then, my mailbox got completely flooded with updates from Plaxo. And I got many messages from trusted friends telling me why they didn't use it :

  • not wanting their personal details out there on the web
  • Plaxo will autoemail all contacts of mine as it is sending plaxo ads under my name every quarter, under the ruse of updating contact info
  • just don't trust them, they have access to all our contacts
  • is this for real, is this 'phishing'
  • they are *EVIL*
Now I don't have any personal experiences for any of these - but I do trust my friends and blog buddies who, in my interest, wrote back to me. So am uninstalling it, deleting my account and am sorry to have bothered any of my readers with having to update your info on my behalf.

On the other hand, Stowe Boyd wrote a piece way back in 2003 on Plaxo called Content Unmanagement. And he doesn't seem to feel it is spamming.

I also discovered Joi Ito's post on opting out of Plaxo - it was simple enough to do. This is for anyone who keeps receiving messages from Plaxo on behalf of their contacts, to update their contact information. I know I have been getting some of those over the last year or more, and I always felt a little uncomfy about doing that. This link will allow you to opt out.



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