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It's interesting, though, that people are beginning to see the downsides of doing this. For example, take the pain and suffering that people who allowed Quechup to use their address books have suffered (see http://www.technovia.co.uk/2007/09/sorry-for-th... for my own example).
As more and more "social network" services crop up which abuse this kind of openness, I suspect that closed networks will actually come back into vogue, as people seek to keep their data under wraps.
and Plaxo are both good examples of that. But aren't there downsides
to social networks as a whole, not to mention the Internet itself? I
for one hope that people don't throw the baby out with the bathwater
and decide that all sharing of such data is bad, or turn the Web into
a series of walled, private gardens.
I agree, I also side with Scoble on this. I had a take on it in a post I had last night. I thought about it all day. But basically, in using these social networks, we are making an investment. We invest our time and efforts to get some return. It is not fair for someone to be able to take our "nestegg" and delete it. We are not speculating on stocks here, that is a risk. Anyway, great post and check out mine if you have a second.
http://tinyurl.com/24c3qk
regards
jimmy