I was just griping about social networking sites earlier this month and now I have to add Tagged.com to the ban list. I got a “You’ve been tagged!” e-mail in their name from someone who had my e-mail addy in their address book. Instead of going to the site, I started looking up what others said about the Tagged and it turns out that they’re another service that kind of worms it’s way into getting more of your contact info than you think. Just a heads-up on that so you don’t get tricked into giving your friends’ e-mail addresses to spammers.

This post is for any friends that are on social networking sites. Not that anyone reads this blog, BUT STILL.

I just got an e-mail from a friend of mine that I know from the shadowy world of MUGEN. No, not the part that makes random-ass fight videos and 10 minute presentations of their character select screen, but the part where people actually do things. I read it and it turns out that it was really an automatic e-mail from WAYN.com that was sent out to everybody in his address book or something. That automatically turned me off from joining the site, but it’s not as if I’m the target consumer of such stuff anyways. I’m not mad at my friend, but I don’t really trust any sites that do things like that.

The one that irks me more than that is Facebook. It sent me an e-mail that claimed to be from a friend with the message title, “I’ve added you as a friend on Facebook.” But it was really just some automail message that pretended to be him. Again, I’m not mad at my friend but I can’t really trust a site that sends out messages in other peoples’ names.

Look, I’m not paranoid despite what the brainwave-recording data files from the black helicopters would have you believe. And the fact that I’m not ready to trust certain social networking sites isn’t my way of saying that I’m not your friend. I just find it hard to join a website that starts telling lies to me before I’ve even joined up.