Saturday, September 3, 2005

DON'T MAKE MY LIFE DIFFICULT Here's something I'm really getting to dislike on the web. You see a headline that you want to check out. So you go there and they want to to enter your name and a password to enter their site. Yes it's free, but you have to tell them who you are and give them your email address and a password. Here's where it gets tricky-if you fill out the form and tell them who you are, they can solicit you with junk mail legally. You contacted them, and gave them information (like your email address). My answer for this is that I may be interested in their story, but I'm not going to give them my information. The idea of the web is that information should be easy to get; if I have to give up my privacy or give them information, then it's not easy. If I get to a page that says I have to sign up before entering, I just pass and then Google the topic to find another source on the content I want. 10:42:45 PM    comment []