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For some reason I have been stuck on bloggin about Facebook. Maybe because they give me so much fodder… ?

So I have been getting messages from Facebook telling me that “soandso found you, via Email Friend Finder.”

What the heck is that!? Is that what I think it is!?

Yup.

You put in your email and password and let facebook grab your address book.  As an added bonus, Facebook “won’t store your password” or “contact your friends” without your persission.

A couple thoughts on this:

1.) They mentioned not storing your password, and not contacting your friends, but did they mention storing or using/selling your address book?  Like as in, “We will not add your address book to our database that we sell to our affilaties.” ??  hmmmm…..

2.) We are supposed to trust Facebook after all of their past Privacy Shenanigans?  How can we even think about handing over our Password and our Address Books to any company, much less Facebook.

This applies to sites beyond Facebook.  I know LinkedIn.com does it also.  And who is LinkedIn’s target audiance?  Business users with Business email accounts and Business Address Books…

Scary, huh?

Josh

Please pass this on to all your friends. Sears needs to be recognized for this outstanding contribution and we need to show them as Americans, we do appreciate what they are doing for our military!!!

It’s verified ! By Snopes.comat:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/sears.as

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This SPAM email tells me that it’s verified by Snopes (It even gives a URL!), so I’m going to believe it and SPAM the rest of my address book!

Believe it or not, this is what happened to me recently.  If anyone even cared to click on the Snopes link (first checking to make sure that it acutally went to snopes.com and not some phishing site), you would see a big, fat, 404.

But, after doing a little digging around on snopes, I came to realize that it actually is on Snopes, but that they forgot the letter p on the .asp of the URL.  So the actually URL should be:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/sears.asp

I found it very interesting that people are starting to justify there spamming by invoking Snopes.com, as if it legitmizes their practice of spamming.

The moral of this post is two-fold:

1. If you are going to use Snopes.com to justify your SPAM,

please make sure you spell the URL correctly.

2. Please stop SPAMMING me, even if it IS verified by Snopes.

-Josh