Exasperation
Plaxo, the service that is supposed to let you stay in contact with a bunch of people. Basically, it goes through your contacts and sends them an email every once in a while saying "Hey, is this information I have on you correct? If not, update it here." The contacts can then update their name/email address/URL/etc online and the information supposedly stays current. Plaxo is stupid for so many reasons. First of all, while I genuinely appreciate how hard it is to manage a lot of contacts, there is something about being just another person in your contact list that is quite distasteful. I just got a Plaxo request from someone that I KNOW and I deleted it; Plaxo makes it completely impersonal. AND THE WORST PART OF PLAXO IS THAT IT HASN'T ADDED ANY SUBSTANTIAL FEATURES IN OVER 2 YEARS. This is despite--or maybe because of--its tremendous amount of VC funding. Give me a god damn break, please. Plaxo, if you want to learn about building relationships and viral marketing, send me an email.
DOWNLOADING AT 1.6K EVEN THOUGH I HAVE BROADBAND
People who think ordinary actions are "gay," like putting lotion on one's hands. These are usually uneducated, provincial specimens of the male gender
The utter stupidity of the bloggers who think that (1) everyone else is a blogger and (2) everything they say is critically important and (3) The Man is always trying to keep them down. Have you ever read Slashdot or another popular site's comments? It's like watching a feeding frenzy of leeches, only these ones are uneducated, have a mob mentality, and don't listen to reason. LISTEN UP PEOPLE: LESS THAN HALF OF AMERICANS READ BLOGS AND WHILE YOUR INSULAR BLOGOSPHERE HAS A LOT OF POSTS/TRACKBACKS/COMMENTS, IT IS A SMALL BUBBLE. Please, get over yourselves
People who prefer to complain about something but don't want to do anything about it
Wrinkles in my clothing after I unpack my traveling bag. WHY DO YOU EXIST EXCEPT TO DESECRATE MY CLOTHING, WRINKLES
People who say, "But Ramit, aren't you afraid recruiters will read this site and not give you a job?" What kind of reasoning is that? So you're basically saying, "Don't do what you really want because 'some' unknown recruiter MIGHT read this page and not like it." Would you want to work for this hypothetical company anyway? I think companies like real people anyway, not god damn robots
Gas stations that close at night
I'm all about spending money on the things you love. I've written about this before (Irrational but good things to buy). But I hate people who buy the best of EVERYTHING with no sense of prioritization. It's not like your life is THAT much better with your Paul Mitchell shampoo, Prada bag (or Gucci men's wallet), Abercrombie hat, Lexus car, brand-new Apple PowerBook, Mont Blanc pen (I really hate you now), Rowenta iron, and Tide detergent. I was reading a magazine yesterday and I saw a god damn umbrella for $315. The quote was "It's built to last for years and it looks damn good." HEY MORON, IF WE DO AN ANALYSIS I CAN BUY APPROXIMATELY 8732578235 BILLION REPLACEMENTS OF THE WALMART UMBRELLA I CARRY AROUND. I would throw the copywriter of this ad off a balcony if I saw him
DOWNLOADING AT 1.6K EVEN THOUGH I HAVE BROADBAND
People who think ordinary actions are "gay," like putting lotion on one's hands. These are usually uneducated, provincial specimens of the male gender
The utter stupidity of the bloggers who think that (1) everyone else is a blogger and (2) everything they say is critically important and (3) The Man is always trying to keep them down. Have you ever read Slashdot or another popular site's comments? It's like watching a feeding frenzy of leeches, only these ones are uneducated, have a mob mentality, and don't listen to reason. LISTEN UP PEOPLE: LESS THAN HALF OF AMERICANS READ BLOGS AND WHILE YOUR INSULAR BLOGOSPHERE HAS A LOT OF POSTS/TRACKBACKS/COMMENTS, IT IS A SMALL BUBBLE. Please, get over yourselves
People who prefer to complain about something but don't want to do anything about it
Wrinkles in my clothing after I unpack my traveling bag. WHY DO YOU EXIST EXCEPT TO DESECRATE MY CLOTHING, WRINKLES
People who say, "But Ramit, aren't you afraid recruiters will read this site and not give you a job?" What kind of reasoning is that? So you're basically saying, "Don't do what you really want because 'some' unknown recruiter MIGHT read this page and not like it." Would you want to work for this hypothetical company anyway? I think companies like real people anyway, not god damn robots
Gas stations that close at night
I'm all about spending money on the things you love. I've written about this before (Irrational but good things to buy). But I hate people who buy the best of EVERYTHING with no sense of prioritization. It's not like your life is THAT much better with your Paul Mitchell shampoo, Prada bag (or Gucci men's wallet), Abercrombie hat, Lexus car, brand-new Apple PowerBook, Mont Blanc pen (I really hate you now), Rowenta iron, and Tide detergent. I was reading a magazine yesterday and I saw a god damn umbrella for $315. The quote was "It's built to last for years and it looks damn good." HEY MORON, IF WE DO AN ANALYSIS I CAN BUY APPROXIMATELY 8732578235 BILLION REPLACEMENTS OF THE WALMART UMBRELLA I CARRY AROUND. I would throw the copywriter of this ad off a balcony if I saw him
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The way mac and pcs have different raised keys. QJU? (Which is how I type WHY? every time I sit down at a mac)
That my auto loan company (Chase) just added a $10 "processing fee" to online payments. I have been paying online for months now and wasn't paying attention when I hit submit, and I had to PAY $10 EXTRA just for paying online!!! AND if I wanted to stop payment through my bank it would have cost $15. ARRRRRRRRGGGGHHHHHHH.
Ramit - I'm the Privacy Officer here at Plaxo. I'd be interested in hearing what suggestions you have about building relationships and viral marketing and how Plaxo can improve.
As for new features, I'm not sure from your post if you are a Plaxo member, but over the past two years, I certainly feel we have added a number of great features as well as enhanced and improved existing ones. I suppose it depends on your perspective as to whether or not these qualify as substantial, but I thought I would mention a few of the features that we've rolled out in the past two years:
- Plaxo now syncs Address Book information, plus Calendar, Notes and Tasks information
- We recently released our Plaxo Premium Suite, which includes our Address Book Optimizer for removing duplicate entries, and Plaxo/Mobile providing WAP access to your Plaxo Online information.
- Bounce Manager: for easy management of email addresses that are no longer valid or improperly formatted.
- Plaxo Birthday Reminders: receive a friendly reminder when a contact has an upcoming birthday.
- Birthday duplicate remover: finds and removes birthday duplicates in your Outlook Calendar
- IE Toolbar: currently in beta, but provides access to your Plaxo data through IE, as well as synchronization to your Yahoo! Address book.
- Plaxo API: allowing API access to a member's Plaxo account from other Plaxo enabled applications.
And we've continued to enhance the basic Plaxo features of:
- Mult-system Syncronization
- Automatic backup and quick restore
- Plaxo Online
I look forward to hearing your thoughts.
Regards,
Stacy Martin
Plaxo Privacy Officer
privacy @t plaxo.com
And to add to your list of things I hate:
- The DH in baseball
- My auto dealership mechanic doesn't work on weekends
- Paying extra to submit my taxes electronically, which will make it easier for the government
- Paying taxes.
- Actually, I don't mind paying my fair share of taxes, but why can't we just has a flat tax rate? Wouldn't that be easier?
- The fact that I can't wash my red shirt with my white shorts.
- Spam... both types.
fucknuts say this to me: "oh i'm sure you aced your final." REALLY? DID YOU SEE WHAT I WROTE? SHUT UP
I swear to god I shit myself after I read your hateful blog
I want to publicly say how impressed I am at Stacy's response to my hatred of Plaxo. Wow--THAT's the way to do business.
Stacy, I'm sending you an email with suggestions for how to improve Plaxo, and thanks for reading.
Were you being ironic about your complaint about bloggers? After all, you are also a blogger who thinks everything he says is critically important.
Folks, it is truly morning in America.
Not really. I hope my rants are entertaining to a few, but I don't go around proclaiming that blogs will change the world and communication as we know it. They're online diaries, people.
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