Personal Blog of Carl Pei

MyBlogLog is a nifty little service, but recently it has been getting on my nerves. I have three main reasons.

1. Concept. What is the actual concept of MyBlogLog? Whatever it is, I’m sure the thought was NOT to have people adding as many contacts and joining as many communities as possible in order to gain traffic. It’s starting to more and more seem like a bad idea.
2. It’s slow. This is very annoying. One of the main reasons I use MyBlogLog is to see the nice “Recent Readers” sidebar, it adds a nice, personal touch to the blog. Recently, it has been so slow that sometimes it might take up to 30 seconds to load. As internet connectivity and speed develops, people grow less and less tolerant to slow web sites. MyBlogLog is making my websites slow. If they don’t get faster servers anytime soon, I’ll stop using it.
3. It’s spyware. In its essence, MyBlogLog is spyware. Not much different from spyware that infect your computers, MyBlogLog tracks all click activity on pages where its code is inserted. They collect and save a large amount of data that they could do what they want with, perhaps sell to companies. If you want to use my info, provide a better service.

The only reason I’m still keeping it on my blog is because, as stated earlier, the Recent Readers widget. But don’t forget, there are other competing services offering a Recent Readers widget as well. I’ll give MyBlogLog one week.

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