Well,
After I’ve recently been touting all the great plug-ins for Microsoft Outlook, I was bitten by one today. Plaxo, which I know many of you use, caught me off guard while I was working on 10 other things simultaneously. So, what happened?
Well, as I was working on a document, I hit “enter” a millisecond after (to my surprise) a Plaxo window had popped up asking me to “update my contacts”. Now normally, I’m not one to be so rude and lazy (just my opinion of the process) to send out a mass of e-mails to everyone in my contact list asking them to update their information for me. Quite frankly, if you’re in my address book, I’ll handle updating your information as it changes. I don’t want a tool to mass e-mail my contacts for me.
So, why continue to use Plaxo? Well, it’s a great backup for my e-mail, contacts, calendar, tasks, etc., should anything happen to my laptop between my normal weekly backups. That alone makes it worthwhile. However, I’ve sent a complaint to Plaxo to at least have a verification screen before blasting my address book. You know, something simple yet honest like, “Do you really want to annoy every one of your contacts with this request?”
So, to everyone who got the e-mail from me today – please accept my apologies. It wasn’t intentional.