Avoid Tagged.com at all costs!

I recently received a "tagged.com" invitation from a fellow blogger, with whom I'd had friendly conversations, but who I didn't consider a close friend. I just ignored it. A few days later, another invitation arrived, telling me that if I didn't join up, the fellow blogger would feel I wasn't his friend. I emailed him directly, to let him know that I wasn't interested, and discovered just how sneaky the idiots at "tagged.com" really are:

It took some generic contact details from me, then informed me who else in my email list is also a member. I figured, sure, I will add them to the set, since they are already involved. But one thing I did NOT want to do was spam all my friends - I KNOW who my friends are and I don’t need a stupid internet network to tell me who they are. I hit send…

Then I scrolled down as I waited for the next page to load.

And discovered it had not just flagged the people in the system but flagged EVERY SINGLE PERSON I HAVE EVER EMAILED for an invitation to this stupid network!

I had messages going out to customer service departments of a dozen companies, billing companies, former clients, casual acquaintances, my PASTOR, my professors! I tried to cancel it, but it was too late.

Let's do our best to stamp out this kind of abusive practice . . . and please don't sign up with those idiots!