--- On Thu, 16/7/09, Pat Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Pat Wilson <[email protected]> Subject: [sussex_mug] Re: Facebook and privacy issue To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, 16 July, 2009, 10:22 PM Anna It's very weird and their activity has bothered me for a while. I don't have a facebook account but recently got an email reminder saying that two people I know had recently invited me to be their friend on facebook. They hadn't. It also listed half a dozen other people it thought I might know. One was someone I do know but have never emailed. Question is how have I been connected to them? I don't use yahoo, hotmail, gmail etc, only my own domain accounts so where was this picked up? One of the two uses googlemail but the other uses their own domain email account which suggests that it must be accessing local address books. Is that feasible / possible? It must somehow have aggregated the addresses and then sent me an email? Pat Exactly. Very creepy. I just couldnt figure out why all these extraneous names were coming up. Ptui. anna churchill wrote: > Ok. Very weird this Facebook nonsense. From time to time someone I > actually know emails me to join their FB. I try. Then I forget the > &*^&^% password etc I signed on with; then I get more invites and when I > try to follow the bread crumbs of an email that says: 1 message, 4 > friends something or other. > > THEN I see names and FACES of people I KNOW. And obviously the goddam FB > program trawls your Yahoo account and whenever an email can be matched > to someone on Facebook whether or not you actually know this person--it > may have been just an enquiry email or organizational email (I just had > Ralph Nader as a "friend" and endless Greek people who I know must be > friends of the two Dutch people I know in Greece) > > This is insane. I have never created my own FB other than to make up > something so I could go visit a friend's page. > > So today, I find listed in an email link the name of someone I had lost > contact with and was very glad to reconnect. It gives you a message > application. But of course I have no idea if the message gets splattered > in the Facebook for all to see? And some people have "locked" Facebooks > but you still get their picture and opportunity to contact them > > Does anyone else feel like they have gone down the rabbit hole on this? > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
