Creepy

[Shari]

Not finding this option.  Not seeing anywhere to 
opt in or out.  Pretty sure I would have seen a 
checkbox and not checked it, though, or unchecked 
it or whatever.

Under Friends, there are several options to help 
you find your friends.  One tells you to give 
your Email/Password (which I know I didn't do). 
Another has you uploading your contact file. 
(Never uploaded anything.)  The rest are various 
search methods.  It lists all the friends of my 
friends, school searches, IM searches, coworker 
searches.  The only ones I've partaken of is my 
high school (after it found all of you) and 
friends of friends to find the friends I missed.

Invite Friends has an option to Import Email 
Addresses and lists several common email sources, 
Hotmail, AOL, Gmail and Yahoo (none of which I 
use except for gmail, which I've only used to 
send reg codes to about 5 people when my emails 
didn't get thru the regular way).

I was reading an article in Wired magazine about 
Facebook and Google being in sort of a war for 
internet domination.  Facebook is doing a pretty 
good job catching up to Google and has a good 
chance of bypassing Google, according to the 
article.  Google is my best friend and does a lot 
of really good things for me.  I'd be pretty 
amiss to ignore the thing that's hot on it's 
tail.  Diddled with MySpace but really didn't see 
much value there.  Facebook, however... as long 
as I don't post information I don't want made 
public, seemed like it was worth checking into.

But the whole where did it find all those people 
issue, THAT scares me.  But I sure do know a lot 
of folks who are on it... I mean, it wouldn't 
have even found the folks if they didn't have 
Facebook accounts, right?

Shari



>  >
>Ok, to check and see if FB grabbed your email address book
>(and it does grab the address book associated with the email addy you
>use to sign up UNLESS you UNCHECK the box. Sneaky, eh?) you want to
>sign in to your FB account and click on "Friends" at the top. None of
>the dropdown choices, just the label "Friends" next to Profile. The
>second option down should show what FB is scanning to look people up
>and suggest folks to invite. Turn it off or opt out- I'm not 100% what
>it says as I opted out from the get-go. Lemme know if you run into any
>troubleŠ"
>


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