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Cassie

Cassie

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Someone emailed a Facebook invite to me and I was wondering.. how does Facebook know about other people on Facebook that I might know? Can Facebook read my hotmail contact list even though I don't have a Facebook acct? The message said I might know my sister, Dual, and a couple other people whose email addresses are in my contact list. I CALL SHENANIGANS.
 
perhaps it sugests people with more than a certain amount of friends in common with u or something.
 
Cassie said:
Someone emailed a Facebook invite to me and I was wondering.. how does Facebook know about other people on Facebook that I might know? Can Facebook read my hotmail contact list even though I don't have a Facebook acct? The message said I might know my sister, Dual, and a couple other people whose email addresses are in my contact list. I CALL SHENANIGANS.
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Cause I'm not Facebook friends with anyone! I don't have an acct, that was the point of my question, OK? :rwmad: Facebook knows who's in my hotmail contact list somehow! Otherwise, how do they know I know Dual and my sister? TRICKSY BASTARDS.
 
Facebook is the first step to Robot domination of the world's human population. Lady Gaga and Ke$sha are steps 2 and 3.
 
One of the steps you can take when you make a Facebook account (or any time thereafter) is to allow the site access to your email contacts so it can check if any of them have profiles. I imagine this is what Dual and your sister did. So... creepily, it's figured out who you have in your contacts list based on your appearance in other peoples'.
 
OH.. ok yeah that makes sense! I was afraid they were snooping through my contacts somehow.
 
It's kind of worrying, though. Surely this means that when we let it look at our contacts it isn't just a one-off thing. They must be keeping records for future reference as well? And presumably, if they wanted to, they could take a pretty good stab at mapping the social networks of people who are not, as well as the people who are using their site.
 
Fuddlemiff said:
It's kind of worrying, though. Surely this means that when we let it look at our contacts it isn't just a one-off thing. They must be keeping records for future reference as well? And presumably, if they wanted to, they could take a pretty good stab at mapping the social networks of people who are not, as well as the people who are using their site.
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There is the option to scan your E-Mail and MSN accounts for contacts but Facebook still needs you to input the password for those accounts to do the search.
 
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