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Here's what Google had to say about social networks and email exporting less than one year ago: "Mass exportation of email is not standard on most social netwo
by kmavm 16y ago
Here's what Google had to say about social networks and email exporting less than one year ago:
"Mass exportation of email is not standard on most social networks — when a user friends someone they don’t then expect that person to be easily able to send that contact information to a third party along with hundreds of other addresses with just one click."
The occasion was Google disabling exporting of contacts from Orkut to Facebook. I happen to think that both Google then, and Facebook now, are perfectly correct. However, I am curious how those who see Google as clearly in the right, and Facebook as clearly in the wrong, would reconcile Google's statement and actions of a year ago with its statements and actions of the last several days.
Edit: citation http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/26/orkut-slows-hemorraging-to-facebook-by-making-friend-export-tool-nearly-useless/ http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/26/orkut-slows-hemorraging-to-...