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Google Challenges Facebook Over User Address Books

Posted by Soulskill on from the where's-my-say dept.

jcombel writes "When you sign in to Facebook, you had the option of importing your email contacts, to 'friend' them all on the social network. Importing the other way — easily copying your Facebook contacts to Gmail — required jumping through considerable copy/paste hoops or third-party scripts. Google said enough is enough, and they're no longer helping sites that don't allow two-way contact merging. The stated intention is standing their ground to persuade other sites into allowing users to have control of where their data goes — but will this just lead to more sites putting up 'data walls?'"

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  1. Mout by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Mout

  2. Facebook search sucks by sodavatn · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Facebook search sucks, it doesn't handle special characters in status update searches. íóæð

  3. Re:Facebook invites ? by NoSig · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You already signed up with them on that email address and IIRC you had to confirm a code sent to the email.

  4. Re:You can't have their email address by contrapunctus · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    yeah because i'm the only one in the world with my name