You've Been Tagged.com! (Run Away! Run Away!)

Some time ago I got this email from an acquaintance:

If you can't see this email please click here

<FirstName LastName> has added you as a friend

Is <FirstName> your friend?

Click Yes if <FirstName> is your friend, otherwise click No.
But you have to click!

Please respond or <FirstName> may think you said no :(

Click here to block all emails from Tagged Inc., 110 Pacific Mall Box #117, San Francisco, CA. 94111

I poked around some on the site and it seemed that it was asking way too many questions for my comfort level, so I just killed the browser tab and moved on with my life.

I just came across some recent news articles that enlightened me as to just how invasive their questions would have gotten if I had hung around for the full ride. Tagged.com actually asks for your email password and then logs into your web based email and sends out this messages to everybody in your address book. I think that would qualify as "breach of trust."

If you receive a Tagged.com invitation, most likely your email address has been harvested from an acquaintance's address book. Whatever you do, don't sign up for tagged, nothing takes a hit on your credibility and professionalism by spamming all of your friends and business acquaintances.

You've at least got to give Tagged.com credit for being honest. In Tagged.com's terms of service, they tell you exactly what they are going to do to you:

E) Notice Regarding Commercial Email

MEMBERS CONSENT TO RECEIVE COMMERCIAL E-MAIL MESSAGES FROM TAGGED, AND ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT THEIR EMAIL ADDRESSES AND OTHER PERSONAL INFORMATION MAY BE USED BY TAGGED FOR THE PURPOSE OF INITIATING COMMERCIAL E-MAIL MESSAGES.

You've been warned.

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