MyBlogLog Has Lost A Customer
In the grand scheme of things, I doubt my exit from MyBlogLog (MBL) will be noticed by anyone from parent company Yahoo! (Y!) as I’m just an average user who hasn’t upgraded his account and I am not really all that involved with my own communities. I use MBL to check my blog stats and occasionally connect with members who visit other communities. Beyond that I haven’t been as active with MBL as I could be.
I Wasn’t Planning On Leaving, But…
I wasn’t planning on leaving MBL, but the Big Y! has changed things enough to give me pause, particularly as pertains to their new requirement that users now have to sign in with their Y! account. Although I do have a Y! account, I wasn’t too keen on that information being linked to MBL. Also, the first time that I tried to link the two accounts to see how that worked, Y! said that my account was closed due to inactivity. The second time I tried it, Y! said that the user name and password were not correct. Oddly, this same log in information works when I use the Yahoo Publishers Network.
Robb Watts Gives It Up Too
I know that I am not the only customer who is walking away from MBL as I received Rob Watts’ broadcast message last week announcing his exit from this social community. Soon after, Rob posted to his Yack Yack blog his reasons for leaving (security and privacy) and I responded to his message with my comments.
I Am A Demanding Social Media User
I have also have a new policy regarding social communities and it is two-fold: If I must give out more information about myself than I would care to share, then I am not interested in that community and, if a community makes it more difficult to log in that necessary, then I am gone.
Call me a fickle social media user, but my toleration for web communities is dependent on ease of use and personal privacy concerns.
Thanks for the heads up on MyBlogLog. I actually just signed up for it (trying to be less of a solitary blogger and get out there and make friends, hah).
I never had any interest in putting it on my site, but thought I’d at least join the herd and see if it brought me any visitors.
Though I have to admit, I lie out of my… special orifice when I sign up for Yahoo accounts. I’m always a bit squeamish about having too much of my personal information out there too.
Annie, MBL is a good community. I may rejoin at some point but they made it difficult for me as I cannot get my accounts to link up.
I’m sure that Yahoo! already knows more about me than what I would care to have shared with them, so my security concerns are probably less of an issue.
Enjoy and welcome!
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