Here’s one UI peeve of mine. It’s when a web application—or any software for that matter—asks you for something, and gives you no option otherwise.

Take for instance tagged.com. After signing in with your desired username, password and other details, it will then ask you for your web mail credentials (in my case Gmail) so it can send invites to everyone on your list (read: spam everyone!).

One correction. Initially, one would think that the point of submitting your webmail credetnials is for Tagged to check if any of your contacts is already on their database. It’s in the wording, after all:

Enter your password and we’ll search your address book for friends on Tagged.

However, it appears that my first hunch is correct. The point of this is for you to allow Tagged to spam EVERYONE on your contact list. See here.

What bugs me is that they don’t give users the option to NOT harvest your mail contacts. First thing that popped in my mind was this could be a phishing site. Had I not known better, I would have just keyed in my Gmail password. I wonder how many users had been fooled into doing just that.

Tagged should have given me the option of skipping this step, much like other social networks. I would rather just invite friends after I’ve tested the waters and determined whether the service is worth sending email invites/solicitations to people.

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