Nirenjan’s Space

I’m pretty sure that the entire blogging community (well, at least those on orkut) would have received invitations to join a new social networking site called Gazzag. Soon after he signed up on Gazzag, Ferrari sent a followup mail through orkut. What concerned me was that Gazzag asked the user for his/her orkut login and password, apparently to send invitations to all friends on orkut.

Now, I have a couple of points to chew on.

1. Why should Gazzag, a competitor for orkut, ask for the orkut login details? What guarantee is there that Gazzag would not hack the account? Not only that, since orkut is most probably linked to your google/gmail account, how can I be sure that Gazzag is not reading my e-mail or posting to Google Groups using my account?
2. Gazzag has a small mention that you can opt out of receiving the invitations by clicking a link in the invitation e-mail. I can count 5 links in each Gazzag invitation that I’ve received – 1 is a mailto link with the e-mail address of the person who has sent me the invite. The remaining 4 are all “Accept this invitation” style links. Now where did I put that opt-out link?

Call me paranoid, but I like to keep some semblance of my privacy intact. What do you think?