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This is really weird. I keep getting invitations from <meetyourmessenger dot ch> (sorry no link love from this site...) that presents itself to me as a page that builds a virtual map on top of the Live Messenger network, helping me to enhance my social network. Yay.

The first thing that I see is this dialog, that wants my name... check, my e-mail... okay, okay, my Live messenger account e-mail... hmmm. and - what? - my messenger password?

Let's say I use my live ID to sign in to several sites, for example my MSDN subscriptions where I can download all Microsoft software... Why would I simply give awaz my Live.com username and password into ANY site, that presents itself as YASNS (yet another social networking site?) Isn't this madness? Or am I getting this wrong?