[time-nuts] Check out my photos on Facebook

Magnus Danielson magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org
Sat Feb 5 10:54:04 UTC 2011


On 05/02/11 06:05, J. Forster wrote:
> Hal,
>
> This is not the first time this has happened. Apparently, when you sign up
> for FB there is some non-obvious (purposely misleading, IMO) opt-out step
> that prevents FB access to your Address Book. The default is full access.
>
> The spam message will be repeated several times in the next month or so.
>
> The Facebook abuse address is:
>
> abuse at fb.com
>
> Linked-In does a similar scummy thing.

You avoid this when running "normal" email and not any of the big 
web-mail accounts (Yahoo, Gmail, MSN etc). I have both Facebook and 
Linked-In and never had this problem.

You need to realize that it is a combination of usage which is 
problematic, not a single usage itself.

Cheers,
Magnus



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