I don't know about you, but lately the amount of email that I've received from sites where "friends" are inviting me to join their "networks" / super poking me / adding me to the applicaiton is getting ridiculous. Here's a message to the owners of these sites and applications: this is SPAM. I honestly don't care if someone is inviting me to join their "Trust Network" on Spock (and I'm not a 'Future Spocker', I'm actually a regular human being with a first name), or if someone has recently added me as a contact on Plaxo. When you email me, its SPAM. I didn't ask for it, I didn't sign up for anything, and I don't really want to join your social network / video sharing site / contact management website / Facebook application or whatever else you're emailing me about. I'm pretty happy with what I'm doing right now, thank you very much. And it really, really ticks me off that the only way to get "View my options" or "Change my contact settings" is to join your website. There's something wrong with having to give you my email address so you don't email me anymore.

I guess this is SPAM 2.0 - people and friends entering in your email address so that companies don't have to rent lists out anymore. Whatever it is, I'm getting tired of it.

Sorry for the rant, now back to our regular blog posts about cool RIAs. Hopefully ones without email invitations.