Here's what Google had to say last year about exporting emails from their social network, Orkut: "Mass exportation of email is not standard on most social netw

Here's what Google had to say last year about exporting emails from their social network, Orkut: "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. In order to protect user privacy, we now exclude email addresses from the CSV export file." 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-... This is almost exactly what Facebook says today, while Google PR fakes a stroke in front of every blogger who'll pay attention. What was different was that, in 2009, Orkut was still the network of choice in two important markets (India and Brazil); "openness" of the sort that Google is advocating for its competitors would have actually been expensive.