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So you are saying that it's ok to export email addresses from gmail but not email addresses from facebook? Can you explain?

• kmavm 16y ago
  Not to speak for GP, but that is a perfectly reasonable position to take, and one that I would take. They're different services; GMail does not have third-party apps in the same sense. Facebook's app ecosystem has some quite disreputable parties in it; an API that lets these parties have access to friends' email addresses would place a lot of Facebook users' emails in the hands of companies that they have no direct relationship with or knowledge of.
• chrischen 16y ago
  Because Gmail contacts list is a list >> I << compiled and maintain. If my friends deleted their gmail email accounts or yahoo or whatever I still have the list. Contrast this to Facebook: I sign up on Facebook and friended a person based on their name, photo, and certain other details but not necessarily email. Does this mean I want them to be able to automatically pull my profile because they friended me based on my public info? Sure they can always compile their own non-Facebook database of info based on what they scrape manually but Facebook should not, and is not obligated to make it easy for people to grab their friends' data.
  • sciboy 16y ago
    Good point. I'm convinced.