Comments on: Simplicity – Why I Deleted My Plaxo Account

By: TipS

TipS — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:00:34 +0000

I don’t really have toom many accounts as you said, I have linkedin, facebook and twitter only ..

Facebook is for personal use, I have my friends and so, it’s quite nice .. Twitter is for marketing and publishing my articles (I have too many followers)

But, i don’t really use linkedin ! I’ll delete my account !!!

By: killy

killy — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:56:59 +0000

one social networking is enough, keep me busy.

By: Chelsea

Chelsea — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:12:57 +0000

Absolutly agree with Andrew on this one. I have deleted all my accounts on social networking site apart from one and I don’t feel I am missing out on anything.

X Chelsea

By: John McCrea

John McCrea — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 16:43:18 +0000

Ah, I should have Googled you first. You do, indeed, have great SEO already!

Re: your contact info. Keeping that up-to-date is not very much work, though.

All the best.

By: Andrew Flusche

Andrew Flusche — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 13:33:16 +0000

@John

I appreciate you stopping by. I know that I can feed other site activity into Plaxo, but wouldn’t my contact information and other profile details become stale? Contact details seem to be the most important part of Plaxo. If those aren’t accurate, there’s not much point to having a profile.

You are absolutely right about SEO. For some people, that may be a reason to maintain accounts at as many sites as possible. Fortunately, it’s not an issue for me. My own sites are #1 and #2 for my name, with every other top 10 result being a social network profile or a post about me. I’m about as findable as one can be online.

By: John McCrea

John McCrea — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 04:32:33 +0000

Andrew,

I head up marketing at Plaxo and appreciated your thoughtful post.

That said, I would like to counter one of the points you raise…

1) If you didn’t log in, your profile would be stale.

Quite the contrary, we have stressed dynamic profiles through interoperability with the whole of the web. You can hook up feeds from places where you actively participate and share, and flow content automatically into your Plaxo profile (with control of who sees which feed). Examples: Facebook, Flicker, Twitter.

Deleting your Plaxo account (and Plaxo public profile) gives you strictly less control over your personal brand and online identity. A well filled-out Plaxo public profile is great way to improve your personal SEO.

John

By: Andrew Flusche

Andrew Flusche — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 04:11:42 +0000

@Phil – Thanks for your thoughts here. Maybe I wasn’t using Plaxo to its fullest capabilities. I knew it could sync things up, but I didn’t explore that very thoroughly.

By: Phil Gerbyshak

Phil Gerbyshak — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 03:31:33 +0000

Interesting Andrew. I like Plaxo, for it’s ability to synch your address book with your desktop client, and if you move, I get your update. Still, I respect your decision…and I just removed myself from Plurk. I’ll be doing more as time goes by, as like you, I only want to connect where I can add value, not just be another number.

Good post!