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slomo wrote:It isn't as creepy as you think. Remember that in a social network, the edges are comprised of two units: the two people engaged in the friendship. Only one of them need provide access to his/her mail server for FB to have access to the others' email address.
So, in other words, if any person who has ever emailed you or whom you have ever emailed opens up their server to FB, then FB will recognize you as a possible friend of that person.
In fact, FB does ask you to provide access to your email. It's kind of sneaky the way they do it, because it looks like they are asking you to log into FB (since you log in with your email address). I might have accidentally allowed this, but for the fact that my passwords are different for my email and my FB account.
Somewhat OT:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20000336-38.html
A propaganda piece if there ever was one.
Simulist wrote:What's really creepy is that privacy for individuals — throughout America, both on and off the internet — is dead.
Nordic wrote:So you're saying that it might not be MY e-mail they've hacked into, but the other people's involved.
I'd have to say that's cold comfort. And it's completely unknown as to whose e-mail they've hacked. Maybe it's mine, maybe it's the other people involved, I have no way of knowing.
Either way it's pretty obvious they've hacked into the e-mail, somehow or another, of me or these other people.
Creepy!
justdrew wrote:it might not have anything to do with email. they could be looking at the people the suggested-person is "friends" with and the people you already are, noting that there are many in common and making the suggestion based on that.
Searcher08 wrote: These Apps harvest emails from your address book and no doubt sell them to spammers / phishers. They have NOTHING to do with Facebook itself. Avoid them like the plague!
5 Creepy Ways Video Games Are Trying to Get You Addicted
... theories are based around the work of BF Skinner, who discovered you could control behavior by training subjects with simple stimulus and reward. He invented the "Skinner Box," a cage containing a small animal that, for instance, presses a lever to get food pellets. Now, I'm not saying this guy at Microsoft sees gamers as a bunch of rats in a Skinner box. I'm just saying that he illustrates his theory of game design using pictures of rats in a Skinner box.
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