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The hottest new thing in web two point oh land is Plurk.com. Plurk is a site that lets you you follow your friend’s time-line. Like twitter! No wait this is better, really! Plurk allows you to post comments to your friend’s time-line. Oh, like Jaiku? Yeah! and it let’s you upload photos. Wow, it’s just like MySpace! Now, don’t get me wrong there is no problem with having a choice. After all, car manufacturers have been building copies of each other’s cars for decades. I like my Kia Sorento, you like your Hyundai Santa Fe.

But Plurk, “plurks” with my privacy! It did something to me today (for as much as a website can do anything to you) that I really am upset about. So upset, that I will never return to that damn web site ever again! I don’t care how cool they are, or how Canadian Plurk is. After 5 minutes on their site I am totally, and forever, done with these clowns. So what happened?

I decided to check out what the buzz was all about. I open my fave browser and type in www.plurk.com. After a while the page loads, and what is on the top of the page? “#insert friends full name here# invited you to plurk”. Mind you, #insert friends name here# was the name of someone I actually know. This was not some bogus message! So how in the hell did Plurk find out we are related? How could it have known? So I call my friend and asked if he invited me to Plurk, What he answered was that he tried to use the “Find friends on Gmail” facility in Plurk but that it never worked. Also, on checking his Plurk profile, it shows that he invited ZERO friends. So how does this damn web site know we are related?

Let me get this straight. I do NOT have an account on Plurk, none of my friends have EVER invited me to join, yet Plurk tells me that a person I know has indeed invited me, even though that person has never invited anyone?

At this point I cleared as much of my personal information as I could. I closed the browser, deleted cookies, cleared my cache. Yup! When I went back to those fuckers dot come, the invite was gone. So what is Plurk looking at to get this info? I am not going to trust these bastards for as long as I live! Is it looking at my Gmail account? Is it looking at Twitter activity? What?

Never again will I visit that site! NEVER!