You want me to enter my yahoo login, NO WAY

As for the “facebook dream” I have neighbours who wont use a messenger client but constantly leave trivial messenger type messages on their facebook feed?

Cant see the point?

The unsubscribe foooter said that you could block e-mails from grouply for a month if you wanted: given that after the superbowl fiasco groups shouldn’t be invited more than once a month anyway, this seems paltry. Being one of those people who has a life largely beyond the screen. I want to be able to bar this stuff forever. That kind of thing makes it look dodgy too.

And the idea of joining any third party service that wants your password was literally a laugh-out-loud idea in this household. Even to my 13 year old.

@Michelle:
Grouply does not spam – People are referring to the “tell a friend”-style invites that enthusiastic Grouply users have been posting to their groups. This got a bit out of control on Super Bowl Sunday for reasons we cannot explain. We immediately put some controls in place to limit the use of this feature. You can read more about what happened here: http://blog.grouply.com/nobody-loves-a-spammer

@TS:
Grouply is not a phisher and does not steal passwords. In fact, many services (e.g., Meebo for instant messaging, T-Mobile for email access via BlackBerry) ask users for their Yahoo passwords as a way to provide them with advanced services. As TechCrunch readers know, this is all part of the Web 2.0 trend of openness and information sharing among web applications. Grouply uses the Yahoo password to automatically connect users to their Yahoo groups, and that’s all. Passwords collected by Grouply are encrypted and are only readable by the Grouply application, not directly by a human. More on that here: http://blog.grouply.com/protect#password

@Steve:
Any Grouply user can delete their Grouply account at any time, directly from within Grouply. Go to Settings > Discontinue Using Grouply. In addition, group owners can block their groups from Grouply if they want.

@Winifred:
Grouply and Grouply users are not in violation of the Yahoo TOS. Grouply users are simply choosing to read and interact with their group messages on Grouply instead of in Gmail, inbox.com, etc.

@ C. Carter:
The Gmail website has controls in place to ensure that I can’t read your emails. Similarly, Grouply users cannot see messages in Grouply for groups they do not belong to. Grouply users can view only the messages from their own groups in Grouply.

I urge anyone who has questions about Grouply to review our FAQ at http://blog.grouply.com/protect or contact me at mark@grouply.com . You also might want to try Grouply yourself! Test accounts are available for your use.

Mark Robins
Co-founder/CEO, Grouply

http://blog.grouply.com/nobody-loves-a-spammer

NeoLuddite says s/he does not get it. Have you actually tried Grouply? Grouply is about sharing your experience of Y!G rather than (as is with your own email client) being a personal experience. In Grouply you can bookmark, tag & rate messages all of which is shareable across other users. Whether this is of use depends on the type of group. The archives in some groups are of little interest to anyone, however in other groups there may be definitive posts and being able to highlight these as a group experience is what Grouply is partly about.

AnonTroll asks why anyone would bother with this. Well, it depends on how heavily one uses Y!G. For some people it may be a main plank of their business & marketing strategy, for example there are several very important LinkedIn groups on Y!G. Also there are over 5000 freecycle and similar groups, many of which are incredibly active, now with the specific support for this community their are some strong reasons for over 5,000,000 active users to actively consider Grouply.

Technicle reports on picking up on the Facebook dream. Well Facebook, for good or ill is helping reshape the Internet and, imo, other social networking sites may ignore them at their peril.

http://technoq.blogspot.com