Why You Should Not Use Digsby

When I said I use yahoo and google talk to keep in touch with people, somebody suggested me to use Digsby. Yes, it has lot of good features, there can be so many reasons why you should be using it, I agree. But the first thing I did was reading their Privacy Policy and it clearly says :

Collection of Your DIGSBY Information

Your DIGSBY information consists of personally identifiable information collected or received about you when you register to use DIGSBY or log in to DIGSBY as a registered user and interact with DIGSBY Products. Depending on how you use DIGSBY Products, your DIGSBY information may include registration-related information (such as e-mail address); information about your visits to DIGSBY Web sites and pages; information about contacts on your Buddy List (such as alias, SMS numbers, and email addresses); information about the features or offerings from DIGSBY that you use, and how frequently you use them; customer service information about you as a DIGSBY user; and other information specifically related to your use of a particular DIGSBY feature or offering.

So, by using Digsby, not only we are exposing some of our info, but we are exposing our contact’s details too to which I have strong objection. We don’t have any right to expose our friend’s mail id or phone number without their consent. That is not ethically right. (Plus, it is to be remembered that we are providing our user ids and passwords of all the connected accounts to a third party) And I don’t know how these information is practically used by them.

That is my one BIG reason why I don’t use Digsby…