>A friend and client reported something similar - several "people he might know", which were not friends of friends on FaceBook, but which looked more like a verbatim transcription of his Outlook Express address book.

I'm pretty sure that FaceBook gets that info from your email client (Outlook, Outlook Express, whatever you use) when you create an account ... although I believe they at least *ask* you if it's ok before they collect the info. Once they have it, though, who knows what they do with it? <g>

~~Bonnie




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>>A client of ours sent a Facebook invite to a couple of coworkers. Neither of those coworkers have Facebook accounts. The invite was sent through email, and the bottom of the email contains as list of "People you might know". Indeed, most are people that the coworkers recognize, but they are not related to each other (many are clients). After a little thought, we realized that these were all people that had email correspondence with the coworker. This suggests that GoDaddy (our web site host and email provider) is sharing not only our email addresses, but the addresses of everyone we've emailed or received email from, with Facebook. As far as we know, they are sharing the entire email. I'm not a conspiracy theorist or privacy advocate, but doesn't that seem to cross a line? Can you think of another explanation? I've confirmed the email is legit and all appearances are that the list of names was compiled by Facebook, not by some code that ran in Outlook. Here is GoDaddy's Privacy Policy regarding third parties:
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