>>>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.
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>>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>
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>Oh, right, I hadn't thought about that possibility (of getting information with the user's permission).

In this case, the users have not created Facebook accounts, yet the addresses are there.