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it just doesn't want people giving their facebook logins out

• branden 17y ago
  Yet they'll ask for your email password to take a look at your contacts. Doubtful, and hypocritical if true.
  • jfarmer 17y ago
    OP is exactly right. Facebook wants to be a one-way valve, much like Microsoft. They also don't like the idea of people "polluting" the social graph, either by adding spurious contacts a la MySpace or by removing random nodes from the network.
    • philwelch 17y ago
      But adding random friends just to add to your Mafia Wars gang is alright?
      • jfarmer 17y ago
        No. They hate it. In fact, they're making it against the TOS and adding a special "game friend" feature in Q1 2010. http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Policy_Examples_and_Explanations#Latest_Policy_News http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Policy_Example...
    • robryan 17y ago
      Well removing is actually making the social graph better as most of the people removed aren't people that should have been closely connected to the user. One problem is though I guess that there is no set way in which people decide where to cut off there graph. Some people will have friends of friends that they met one and work colleagues just because they work in the same building whereas others may limit to close friends and family.