I just canceled my vox account. I hardly posted there and it was yet another account to remember a username and password for that really provided me with no benefit that I don't or didn't already have in some fashion. Vox is a great great platform and allows for sharing of music, video, books, right from go and has improved greatly since I started using it last summer. But I just don't use it enough.
Also I've been more paranoid/cautious lately of the accounts I have. I trust vox for the most part, they are owned and run by sixapart the same people who first made movabletype then went on to buy typepad now and the livejournal. All really good platforms. But I've been becoming less and less comfortable having my data in someone else's databases.
Everyone is tracking everything anymore. Google knows what you searched for last year. Safeway knows you buy 12 rolls of TP every month and can guess from your buying habits that you have a kid and an approximation of what you make in a year.
Also I'm tired of account after account after account to do anything. I've setup a basic method of being able to get to my bookmarks that I have on my laptop at home from anyplace. It's one way. So I looked into finding a tool that lets me sync bookmarks. I found a few... One is old and outdated and won't work with the browser I'm using. The other needs an account to be setup and who knows whats being done with the data I may generate for them. The other is from Google and I don't know if I want to give them anymore personal data. So I think I'll be sticking with my primitive method for the time being.
I suppose all of this is part of the down or dark side to living in the information age. More information being stored and turned into usable data about nearly everything. Which isn't necessarily bad but at the same time holds potential for abuse...
Frontline did a great show a few weeks back titled: Spying on the homefront... Which is well worth the watch...