Comments on: Is Facebook Buying Plaxo? Do You Care?

By: Kate Carruthers

Kate Carruthers — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:27:29 +0000

This would be a sad thing since Plaxo has recently started delivering some interesting functionality. I’m soooo over Facebook, but it does serve a utilitarian function as my online address book. But these days I’m loving Twitter much more than the others.

By: Alan Johnson

Alan Johnson — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:36:46 +0000

I agree Andy, with websites such as Facebook, you get more than a few contacts who are interested in nothing more than advertising certain products, even if, at the beginning, they’re trying to make it seem as though they’re only interested in chatting.

Alan Johnson

By: lux

lux — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:26:42 +0000

Last time I checked Plaxo out, they had zero support for my e-mail client of choice, Thunderbird. Since manual import data would have been a huge drag, I punted. No regrets.

I like Facebook, but I don’t like it enough to want to spend a bunch of time segmenting my personal and professional contacts, deciding who gets to see what information about me (or deleting stuff if that’s not possible), etc etc. That would be a lot of work and not much benefit, IMO.

By: George Bounacos

George Bounacos — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:30:53 +0000

I love Plaxo’s ability to sync Outlook and Gmail. That’s why I ended up there. I don’t mind using their Pulse feature to feed a blog or Twitter stream through, but this is why I declared Facebook bankruptcy.

I don’t want to mix my professional and social graph. I don’t want my business contacts trying to suck me back into the Facebook mess. Like you, I had a brief fling playing with my friends until I realized there was just too much about me personally on FB.

I would consider non-renewing Plaxo as a result, or at the very least, going stealth and using it to sync the calendars and contacts from home, work and my wife’s office.

By: Spurious Ink » There’s a Great Chance I’ve Deleted You

Spurious Ink » There’s a Great Chance I’ve Deleted You — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:21:01 +0000

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By: RKF

RKF — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:09:08 +0000

This is why I never installed or signed up with Plaxo, despite the numerous requests. I figured it was just a matter of time until the TOS changed and/or they were bought out by a larger company.