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Another reason this could happen: Your friends have allowed facebook to scan their accounts and facebook remembered that your friend sent you an email before to
by vpdn 16y ago
Another reason this could happen: Your friends have allowed facebook to scan their accounts and facebook remembered that your friend sent you an email before to the address you're now using to sign up. No scanning of your account required.
I'm pretty sure they do save email data of non registered "users" because I was invited to facebook a few times. There was nothing strange on the first invite, but every consecutive invite had other additional friends of mine, who are too "waiting for me" to join.
- gizmomagico 16y agoSorry for not noticing your reply sooner! Actually the one who invited me and "caused" me to join was someone I didn't really know, but met once at an event. This person was extremely unlikely to be friends with any of my real friends. But still, I got suggestions for my actual friends right away, so I still can't see any other way than for Facebook to actually have had access to my GMail account prior to me joining.