I hate tagged.com
After receiving an invitation from tagged.com through a friend of mine, I first ignored it as I usually do with these kind of things. Then today, while I was busy with something else, I scanned through my mail while waiting and opened the tagged mail that I received. I clicked yes mostly because the damn thing makes you feel guilty not to click the button ("Please respond or your friend may think you said no :("). In my absent mindedness I supplied them with my email details - yes, in hindsight it was very stupid.
On the next page it displayed my friends that was already caught out by this screwed up site tagged, so I decided to only send a 'tag' back to them, no one new. The page layout is as follows: at the top it lists your friends that are registered on tagged, with a big red button next to it saying "Add Friends", which is what I clicked before I scrolled down... when you scroll down you will see that it has included each and every email address in your address book, even people you mailed once 2 years ago... :( So, tagged.com sent out a "Thea has tagged you! :)" to almost 200 addresses, including some mailing lists, the IT Manager and PM of our current client, previous clients, colleagues and bosses. If I have tagged anyone that reads this, please accept my sincerest apologies!!
I can not understand how people like this can sleep at night... I immediately closed my account and gave them a piece of my mind, wondering how much hate mail they get each day. O, and I changed my email password...
After a quick search on google - some other people who was caught by tagged:
Confessions of a Shiftless Mind
Power to the People