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Before You Use ANY Service Like This....
Authored by: Blah on Aug 24, '05 04:10:27PM

....Be sure you ask permission from each and every one of your contacts IN ADVANCE. If this seems onerous, just remember that you are playing with other people's personal information, putting it in a 3rd party's hands without their permission.

And just because you request to be pulled from your friend's online address book doesn't mean Plaxo throws away your info (they don't, from what I'd read a while back on their site). This means your act of sharing your friends' info is not even entirely undoable!

If I find out anyone I know put my information on Plaxo (or any other similar service) I'll put on my hiking boots and kick their physical a$$ across the room. It's taking time for people to become educated, but as everyone become more familiar with basic privacy issues hopefully it will get better.



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