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Well, when I got home from work tonight (technically last night, as it’s after 5 am now) I had an email invitation from a friend: Join Tagged! My first thought was, ‘What is this? Another one of those address book sites?’ Of course, they phrase the invitation email so that it sounds like you’re going to horribly disappoint whoever invited you if you don’t confirm, so I clicked Yes, she’s my friend.

Immediately, I was at a registration page. I didn’t fill it out right away. Instead, I pulled up the root domain page and had a look around. Wow. It’s MySpace, with more obnoxious ads. Then I read the TOS. They collect personal info in the registration process which they use to target the ads to you, which would be more appropriate, I suppose, if it worked. I went ahead and created an account, because hey, another network means another chance to be found, which means more chances at traffic, which is usually a good thing for blogs and smart-alecky shops like mine. I filled in the name/email/password section, then stopped cold, because it wanted my Gmail password so it could rifle through my Gmail addressbook for more people to invite.

Um, NO. I closed the tab and went straight back to the root domain, which meant I bypassed the whole “answer questions about your interests so we can target ads at you” section. So, just like with MySpace and Facebook, it’s another place to collect friends/acquaintences and redirect them here, because there is just no point in trying to repost everything at every single networking site out there.

(Is it just me, or is the formatting being a real pain here? There’s no reason I can see for the odd line breaks.)

Originally published at Chrystalline. You can comment here or there.