Total Information Give-Away Dot-Com
Wednesday, September 15th, 2004Regarding a comment I heard about how Plaxo is probaly not the best place to keep your contact information. The argument? “Who knows what they are doing with your data?”
I don’t know. I just pray they aren’t about to sell it to magazine subscribers.
Still, though, they are on to something. De-Outlooking and de-devicing data is, as my Swedish friends tell me, “the way of the future.” I agree, though, that if I’m simply replacing the shackles of MS with the shackles of Plaxo, the net gain is zero.
Plaxo is damn handy, though. I use it. And since moving, I’ve found it invaluable. When work moves to a new location in a month, it will prove its value again. It has even become a part of my regular routine to accept plaxo requests from people I had long forgotten about.
Regardless, I don’t think you’re a skeptic or a cynic. It’s not like you believe Plaxo is a hoax. And it’s not a knee-jerk reaction, so far as I can tell. You see the value, perhaps, but the service is not as valuable as your personal data. The trade-off is something most people wouldn’t take the time to figure out. And that is at the heart of their business plan, I’m sure.
