Talk:MyLife/Archive 1

List of social networking websites on AfD
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I am worried that reunion.com is selling my private information. They do not answer their phone. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Elan4444 (talk • contribs) 17:18, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

BetacommandBot 20:18, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale has been added for Image:Reunion dot com logo.gif

Jjcrawford 17:39, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Promotional yadayadayada & blablabla
I removed promotional yadayadayada & blablabla from this article. For example, press releases by this company through Business wire were used as a source in the introduction. The only thing what press releases prove are that a company states or claims something. In case people are editing this article who work directly or indirectly for Reunion.com: If your business practices cannot be exposed to the daylight, change your business practices, don't change wikipedia. Klungel (talk) 13:34, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Comments on unethical behaviour by Reunion.com
I separated the unethical behaviour of Reunion.com under two headings: Privacy and Spam. I understand that Reunion.com makes people angry but please stay objective, rational and neutral when you edit the text of wikipedia. Anger leads to the Dark Side, may the force be with you. Klungel (talk) 14:14, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

I added some details today to these sections after yet another of my friends was scammed by this firm and had their email addresses accessed unknowingly. It's not clear how to best use real-world anecdotes to validate statements on wikipedia, but for the record, here is one thread

On Sat, 1/10/09, I wrote: From:  Subject: FW: added you as a friend on Reunion.com! To: Date: Saturday, January 10, 2009, 12:14 PM Hi,. Just checking... did you actually add me to Reunion.com web site? This site is known to be a real source of spam, and they often will send messages to everyone in someone's email address book without their (your) knowledge. Reply from to 

It was a huge mistake and I apologize. Someone sent it to me and I tried to cancel but was obviously not successful. So sorry..... +_+

david.beav 11 January 2009  —Preceding undated comment was added at 18:03, 11 January 2009 (UTC).

Using external link
I would caution users against linking to MyLife.com. They will capture your email address regardless of whether or not you do any dealings with them. At the very least, you will be bombarded with messages inviting you to join. Just more spam for me to delete :^( --Phyllis1753 (talk) 20:07, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

previous "mylife.com"
There was an application called "MyLife" and a website by the same name. The software allowed for organizing pictures, creating a family tree and a lot of other things. It had a large and very interesting set of questions to help you get to know about other people and to share thing about yourself. It would be nice to talk to the people that started it and find out what they are doing now and what happened to such a great product and it really belongs in the history of "mylife.com", imo —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.227.5.140 (talk) 20:00, 11 September 2010 (UTC)


 * You're right. Looking through the archived versions of mylife.com, It looks like the family networking site you're thinking of was created in 2007 as a service of reunion.com shortly after they got $25 million in venture capital funding. It was apparently active at least through August 2008, which is as far as the archives go right now. —mjb (talk) 21:11, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

The way this organisation goes about its business is indefensible.
What Reunion operates is clearly a fraudulent and misleading site whose main aim is to trick people into paying a fee at every stage of navigating the website it does not even have full and proper details of each member, visit blog sites on reunion.com to learn how they fraudelently send out emails to your contacts tricking them that they originate from you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.73.79.40 (talk) 18:05, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

And more: They will use your Facebook wall for promotional advertising! That is, they will advertise on your wall you used their Who's-Looking-For-You service (even if you didn't). 173.206.238.35 (talk) 06:55, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

Suspicious edits
Today there was an attempt by User:208.147.48.67 to remove all content critical of MyLife/Reunion.com from both the article and this discussion page. This same IP has been used multiple times for similar content removal attempts over a long period (late 2008, late 2009, and now again in late 2010). The IP is hosted by Savvis in Los Angeles, coincidentally the home and ISP used by MyLife/Reunion.com. In 2005/2006, the same IP address was used to spam Wikipedia with info about the photographer brother of Jason Lubas, one of MyLife/Reunion.com's former employees. I can't say anything with certainty, but I suspect a conflict of interest.

Whoever keeps making these edits, you need to read Conflict of interest, a behavioral guideline you're violating. In the meantime, if there are specific problems with the article that need to be addressed, discuss them here, or at least explain why you feel the content should be removed, or your edits will never stick. —mjb (talk) 05:35, 16 October 2010 (UTC)


 * People at MyLife tried to edit the incorrect article today. The company actually has an A+ with the Better Business Bureau, for instance.  Check the link in the article to the BBB for proof. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.0.252.138 (talk • contribs) 01:55, 23 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Congratulations on the upgraded rating. I verified it and included it in the article, but in a way that makes it clear that the rating changed from a poor one to a good one. Again, don't attempt to whitewash the article yourself; it's a conflict of interest. —mjb (talk) 05:05, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

Again with the whitewashing by 208.147.48.67. Knock it off. —mjb (talk) 05:29, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

Fake Profiles
Maybe someone could add something to the article about how MyLife maintains fake profiles on people by using some kind of search aggregator. For example, when I do a google search on my name (a very unusual name), a link to a MyLife profile shows up. When someone clicks on this link, a page shows up which provides information that would indicate that I have a profile on their site. If the user wants to view this profile (again, this is a profile that I did not create or authorize) they need to register and become a member of the site. It's a totally deceptive scheme. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.226.69.39 (talk) 21:12, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

I would like to add something to this. I have a very unusual surname (it yields about 3 pages of entries on Google Search). I know for a fact that there are less than 20 people on the planet with this name. It's Greek, so there are three of us here in Greece and maybe half a dozen others in the US, mostly around Chicago. It's a long Greek name, so whoever else had it shortened it, a long time ago (can't say I blame them). When I Google my first and second names together, a MyLife entry pops up, which has my correct age, but lists me as a resident to a city half a world away. Great, I thought, a long-lost relative — except it also lists a partial e-mail address, which is an old address of mine, made using a very unlikely jumble of words (in Greek) that some friends created for me, as an inside joke. I don't know how I can describe this any more objectively: it's a scam, pure and simple. I don't know where they got my information from (facebook, a couple of internet forums?), but it seems clear that this information is placed where it is to deceive somebody — either me, to create (and pay for) an account, thinking I'll find a cousin 5 times removed, or other people who wish to contact me. 85.73.112.253 (talk) 19:12, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

I agree, something needs to be mentioned about this. There is a profile on MyLife that matches my identity too that I didn't create, including where I live and my correct age. They are an information aggregator, and they are trying to create fake profiles for everyone. I'm too pissed off right now to write about this in an unbiased way. 199.38.162.15 (talk) 14:18, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

Promotional Spam
I've marked this article for possible deletion as it seems quite clear that it is no more than a promotional advertisement for mylife.com. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.4.48.115 (talk) 01:22, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

I would urge that this page not be removed due to all the problems people are having with this company. It needs to be edited to include the problems people are having. Right now if you go to this site it will display the birthdate of anyone you search for. Its a major privacy violation. Sattmaster (talk) 15:50, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

I concur with Sattmaster. Article should definitely *not* be deleted. It much relevant information useful particularly to those having problems with the company. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.182.116.187 (talk) 18:34, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

I enjoyed reading this article/page; (I saw a high school friend was a 'member'.) But I've decided to not join. How many social networks can one endure? LinkedIn, Facebook, Google+ and Twitter are enough for me. Thanks for your work here. — Charles Edwin Shipp (talk) 01:57, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

Adding refs and proof
After coming across complaints about MyLife I started researching it and found out a lot about the site. I have added information about the lawsuits, scam allegations and updated statistics. I'm going to start on a new section about the services MyLife offers to show what the website is about and what they advertise (to balance out the article because this IS about the company). I would also like to see more info about the companies they acquired like (Wink). Maybe Wink Technologies should be merged with this article? Anyways, will work more on this later... --South19 (talk) 05:10, 1 November 2013 (UTC)
 * While I appreciate your efforts to expand the article it has become an attack piece with a strong anti-MyLife POV. I am reorganizing the article to make it more neutral and also I'm removing the unsourced claims per WP:RS, undue weight per WP:UNDUE and original research per WP:OR. Best, -- — Keithbob • Talk  • 15:50, 16 September 2014 (UTC)-- — Keithbob •  Talk  • 13:09, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

Not a Networking Site
Mylife.com is not a social networking site. It's profiles are auto generated for people using publicly obtainable information. Almost none of the people whose profiles appear on the site created them, the profiles were created without the permission of the people's whose names are on them.

I bet you cannot even find one social networking user on the site. It is nothing more than an over glorified background search service. You have to pay money to "remove" or "change" your profile. In my opinion it is nothing more than a shake-down site like the mugshot sites that charge $300 to remove someone's mugshot are. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.20.69.216 (talk) 08:36, 4 July 2017 (UTC)

Who's Who scam?
Does anyone else think mylife is similar to a Who's Who scam ?from Who's Who scam: "In 1999 Tucker Carlson alleged in Forbes magazine that the long-lived Marquis Who's Who adopted practices of address harvesting as a revenue stream, undermining its claim to legitimacy as a reference work listing people of merit." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.117.139.45 (talk • contribs) 12:53, November 16, 2017 (UTC) ‎

I have some notion of what a Who's Who scam is; I am not sure if this is so similar, but it does look fake and none of the URLs to the site work, neither the personal tracker links nor its website. Suddenly last year I had an email notification that I had a 'profile', and now I get 'alerts'. It claims I live in Ohio, USA, whereas I live nowhere near there.Dori1951 (talk) 23:44, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

It is offline as of dec 2018 Zezen (talk) 21:22, 10 January 2019 (UTC) I've been recently receiving emails from MyLife.com and website seems to be up on 13 January 2019. How can these sites continue like this? Honeybadger69 (talk) 20:59, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

Erratum
Typographical error: In 2007, according to a company press release, MyLife.com received $25 Million (…) should read as follows: In 2007, according to a company press release, MyLife.com received $25 million.

Cordially, --104.221.59.252 (talk) 18:13, 16 February 2019 (UTC)

No mention of the fact that their information is frequently inaccurate?
I'm glad that wikipedia is being so circumspect about this scam/shake-down website. Wouldn't want to criticize.


 * Well, this article states that they "generate a 'MyLife Public Page' for each person, described by MyLife as a 'complete Wikipedia-like biography on every American.'" That is a pretty clear indication that whatever they do, it is worth diddly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.91.48.17 (talk) 14:38, 27 June 2019 (UTC)

Summary seems like an advertisement
I removed the worst offenders but it still doesn't read so much like a summary as a blurb for the site. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.16.221.135 (talk) 16:36, 19 September 2019 (UTC)