Similar article from Time: <a href="http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1903810,00.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1903810,00....</a><p>On the one hand, I'm not happy that Tagged and co are getting all this publicity, but on the other I'm hoping that it helps to stem the tide a bit. It's shocking how many people have not learned the importance of keeping passwords secret.
<i>"I spoke to Greg Tseng, founder and chief executive of Tagged, to ask him what happened. He said all social networking sites invite you to e-mail your contact list to join up or discover which of your friends are already members, but that a software glitch meant an unusually large number of accidental invitations went out recently.</i>"<p>Yeah right....
I'm confused, does it ask you to type in your email address and password for your email provider? I can't believe anybody would be stupid enough to fall for that.<p>If it doesn't, where did it get all of his contact info? Did he enter it in himself. If this is the case, what does the website say that prompts you to enter in your contact lists?
I can't believe the author is so soft on Tagged and MyLife.com etc. I've seen this happen to my mother as well, who was very embarrassed. This needs to be regulated and be treated like spamming is.
First time I saw this happen was when my daughter signed up for doostang. All of us on her gmail address list got an invite, including some ex-boyfriends. She later sent an apology to the whole list. It was certainly a wake up call.<p>Software glitch, nah. Who are we kidding.
I had to read this like 3 times to understand that users were voluntarily typing their email password into a site. It's so ingrained in my behavior not to do that, I was trying to figure out, "how do they get the password?"