The only thing these people have in common is that, at one time or another, they have corresponded with me at the email address I received the FB mail at, so that address is in their email address books.
So, when you join Facebook, do you give them the right to peek into your address book and collect non-FB members' addresses?
you are the media you consume.
An application that lets users point a smart phone at a stranger and immediately learn about them premiered last Tuesday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. Developed by The Astonishing Tribe (TAT), a Swedish mobile software and design firm, the prototype software combines computer vision, cloud computing, facial recognition, social networking, and augmented reality. "It's taking social networking to the next level," says Dan Gärdenfors, head of user experience research at TAT. "We thought the idea of bridging the way people used to meet, in the real world, and the new Internet-based ways of congregating would be really interesting." Read more...
"It's taking social networking to the next level," says Dan Gärdenfors, head of user experience research at TAT. "We thought the idea of bridging the way people used to meet, in the real world, and the new Internet-based ways of congregating would be really interesting."
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Not that I've much to lose. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
It's taking social networking to the next level ...
is happy Sales Talk for being nosy, intrusive, assholes.
But other than that, I guess it went fishing in our address books. Which I didn't even know was possible. keep to the Fen Causeway
As MillMan explains, they can get permission to fish if signers-up don't realize what they're allowing.
But the answer seems clear: a member can run a feature designed to find people they know on FB, using their email address book (for a web-based account). They probably don't realize (maybe are not clearly informed) that FB will store the addresses retrieved in a dbase.
So ...
If you are reading this the probability of your internetting becoming part of a file is ever so-slightly increased by talking to US citizens.
Straight forward Set Theory, in other words.
You don't know me.
STRANGER DANGER!!! Ad astra per aspera
You don't know anyone. En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
I am no one.
:-)
Of course, I "unsubscribed" from their mails (as if I'd ever "subscribed").
Not automatically, but social networking sites have tools which allow you to ask the server to look for people you might know based on your webmail address book. En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
This confirmed my convicting not to become a member of facebook.
/oblig Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
