w4: "This Plaxo thing is insidious.

I just got an email from someone I spoke to a while ago which says 'I'm just updating my address details, please can you confirm or correct what I have?' The email is automatically generated by Plaxo and shows a neat card that indicates this guy doesn't really have have my details. So I think 'Okay.' And trott off using the link provided to go update them.

But as I'm there I'm thinking 'hey... if I change my details again, i've got this work to do again. And maybe for each person who keeps my details in Plaxo.' He's put the burden of updating my details on to me. Fine for him, not fine for me. Of course Plaxo offer the carrot 'If you get Plaxo too then you won't have to do this. We'll do it for you.'

Of course then I'm signed up for the Plaxo service. They'll want something in return (and I still have no solution for the other people who will not be using Plaxo). Some people might call this clever marketing, but I think it's a bit like being blackmailed and I don't like it."