Amen, Jessica! Can I share a little personal experience I had on this matter?
One day I was researching interactions on a dating/social site. (Research, riiight.) No really I was. I was interested in their heavy use of DHTML. I'm happily married. (comes into story later) So I went to an area on their site where I intended to invite a couple friends to check it out. It used the Google Contacts lookup that seems to be getting more and more popular. So there I was with all 300 of my gmail contacts. Now, mistake number one: They redesigned the checkboxes to be a little more stylized. This made it unclear to whether or not an item was checked or not. Mistake number two: I had assumed they wouldn't default ALL contacts to send invites too. BUT THEY DID. I thought I had checked my 2 friends but really was un-checking them. I hit "Invite". Thinking I had only invited two, I had Invited nearly all contacts out of my Gmail account. I had to send a rather embarrassing apology so that nobody thought I was leaving my wife or looking for a mistress through a dating site. I am still a little ticked about it. In fact, I just may list the URL right now, right here: ........ www.iminlikewithyou.com There I did it. Save your users. Do not default to "All". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=26405 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
