What's Up with Plaxo?

Plaxo is an online service I started using a couple of years ago. It was an add-on for outlook that helped me keep my Outlook address book synchronized between two computers. Another nice feature was that if some people in my address book were also Plaxo users, then anytime they updated their contact information in Plaxo, it would automatically be updated in my address book. But about a year ago I quit using Outlook all together in favor of gmail. Consequently I haven't been using Plaxo either, but I never got around to going online and deleting my Plaxo account. 

Lately strange things have been happening. I've been getting emails about once a week about some guy named Paul Rhoub and his favorite songs for the week.  I don't know who Paul is, and don't care what songs he thinks were good this week. And we obviously don't have the same taste in music because I never even heard of any of the songs. But somehow Paul must have ended up in my Plaxo address book, and I'm getting a feed anytime he updates this list or posts anything to his blog.  Additionally people I know have been accepting my connection requests for Pulse, a new social networking feature of Plaxo.  It's nice of these friends to accept these connections, except that I never requested them.  However, when I log on to Plaxo there is a long list of people from my address book that I supposedly requested "connections" with back on March 8, 2008.  That's just creepy.  And nowhere on their site did I see information about how to cancel my account.

Luckily a Google search took me to a forum, where I learned I could go to support.plaxo.com and type "cancel" in the search box to find instructions to cancel.  I did so and no longer have an account with Plaxo.  I encourage you to do the same.  This is creepy.