Every blogger should know what is mybloglog and blogcatalog by now. Basically it is an application that logs our visit to blog or website that have joined either this service. This is not a comparison between this 2 services, but more of my experience using their service. Having use blogcatalog later than mybloglog, I feel both of them have similarity in terms of services offered. As we know, mybloglog has been acquired by Yahoo, and this makes their service and engine works better especially in combating all kind of spam.

I join and installed BlogCatalog widget few weeks back, but I have removed it last week, but I will keep my membership. The reason behind it is because I feel like I was kind of spammed by email informing this bla bla has join my community and add me as friend. Initially I add all of them since I’m new in this community and need to socialize more with them. Until one day when I check the profile one of my ‘to be friend’, it is not even approved yet.

I’m not sure if you can start adding friends before getting approved, but I feel this is not the way it should be. Furthermore the profile seems like not updated with no avatar uploaded. In real world, to be friend we must know each other, at least we meet them few times or if you friendly enough, you can be friend in 1 meet only

The same thing applies in internet. You must introduce your self before become a friend (in this case, using avatar) or at least visiting their blog or website few times before.

It turns out, out of 8 my so called friend, 5 of them doesn’t have an avatar. 4 of them called ybyl, xulu, xxin, yano doesn’t have blog/website and they appear online 1 – 2 months ago. Are they human or just script or bot?

While for MyBlogLog service, I’m pretty satisfied with them, especially their auto added community features that automatically add us to the community of blog we’re frequently visited

Update 16/06/2007: Look likes BlogCatalog guy has visit this blog, this is fast indeed. I have nothing against BlogCatalog, except I’m voicing my concern about it.