The Crutis

Goodbye Plaxo

A while ago, I signed up for Plaxo, but never got interested in the service. It was all too closed up for me when compared to services like Twitter or FriendFeed. Then today I get an email that reads:

A Letter from the CEO and Founders

Dear Plaxo member,
We are excited to announce some of the biggest news in the history of Plaxo. Plaxo has signed a definitive agreement** to be acquired by Comcast, the nation’s leading provider of entertainment, information and communications products and services. We’ve got at least a few months to go before the acquisition is completed, but we wanted to send you this note to let you know what’s coming up and how it affects you and your account.

I already know how this will affect my account though; It’ll be deleted. I don’t want the company that throttles my bandwidth and inspects my packets to also own the kind of information that Plaxo stores.