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Re: What I was using to hit Facebook — unreleased Plaxo Pulse

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Mermer — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:29:56 -0000

Yeah, I don't know if a lot of people do get banned!? Who knows?

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Kamyon — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:28:09 -0000

Thanks. That would be a great feature for Plaxo! I hope Facebook sees the light.

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Michael Voisinet — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:01:35 -0000

Tereasa Valdez Klein should not use the word retarded.

That would is both very derogatory and both very offensive to people who are mentally challenged.

I don't think that she knows what that word means or the full ramiforcations of it.

I don't think that Ms.Klein has been exposed to be who are mentally challenged.

If she was she wouldn't be making the disparaging remarks that she did.

Ms.Klein needs to show some empathy towards people who are relatively different than what she is.

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Guy Serre — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:15:04 -0000

It's all good, I won't turn you in, or anything. Even if I don't get cut in. All you have is my honor. Although I do like the girl. You let her know that I know and to talk if theres any jibber jabber to be done.

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etoplum — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 03:10:10 -0000

If it’s on the web, you can only get pissy with yourself for not having the foresight to not put it out there. Any one of your FB friends could expose any bit of data about you they care to–if you show it to them...

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bramde01 — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:16:25 -0000

Yeah, I don't know if a lot of people do get banned!? Who knows?

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Andy Winters — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:33:20 -0000

Do a lot of people really get banned? How much hell do you have to cause before that happens? haha

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bramde01 — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:07:29 -0000

I noticed the same problem with the gmail address book compatibility issue.

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John Maas — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:49:40 -0000

So do you recommend Plaxo or no? I want something that is robust, and easy to operate.

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mdMoore08 — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:14:30 -0000

Downloading copies of pieces of 4,999 records is a different context than handwriting those same pieces of 4,999 records. The download is most likely not for the same purpose as the handwriting.

Also, I don't think anyone really has 4,999 friends. I seriously doubt that anyone has more than 8 really close friends with whom they would feel totally comfortable sharing very personal feelings.

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Michael Phillips — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 07:27:50 -0000

If it's on the web, you can only get pissy with yourself for not having the foresight to not put it out there. Any one of your FB friends could expose any bit of data about you they care to--if you show it to them.

Scoble, I think this is fantastic. Not so much that the data were sent to such-and-such corp, but that (1) you were able to automate it and (2) that it woke people up to data security who are outside of IT by a long shot. It's precisely this kind of destruction of naiivete that is going to help push end users to learn what they're dealing with and how to protect themselves if they are uncomfortable with spreading their personal data all over.

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JP — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:08:21 -0000

Scoble, I was wondering if you know of any OCR script that will allow me to copy e-mail addresses from a network (i.e. my college) and copy them into A FB import file.

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The White — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:57:29 -0000

If those people confirmed that you are a friend of them then you are allowed to get their information. If you had tried to pull not just friends but some others than it is something...

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surfsax — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:42:25 -0000

Thanks Robert, your latest adventure alerted me to how vulnerable my email address was to being sucked into the evil spammy Plaxo.

I have now restricted access to my email address until the privacy filters down to the new friends lists functionality.

Keep up the good work but don't waste all your time on Facebook;)

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Mr_Simple — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:12:47 -0000

Geez Scoob I must be a mind reader. I nailed it yesterday when I said your script was probably running through your account sucking down data.

I'm off to Vegas now baby!

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William — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 12:52:01 -0000

I think you're a great guy, Robert, but i have to voice my natural concerns here (and nrmally i am NOT paranoid about privacy etc!): I added you as a friend on facebook, and greatfully accepted(thanks!) but had NO idea that you would start using pre-release (beta? potentially buggy??) software to extract my data off Facebook... I feel a *tad* annoyed there...

I happen to use Plaxo,trust them etc, but imagine this pre-release software is compromised and another party accesses it?

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Rai — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 12:51:05 -0000

If you the people you linked to on Facebook were really your friends you wouldn't have thousands of them and you wouldn't need software to collect the information. You'd be able to go through and to do it yourself or... Gasp, they're your friends! You already know most of their birthdays and whether or not they're on Plaxo!

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Reality — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 12:49:31 -0000

Scobel, more of a creep every day. I even hear his name and I want to.go wash my ears. creep.

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victorcoustenoble — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 08:48:46 -0000

But is it legal than Plaxo Pulse can extract and keep facebook profile and list of friend with name ?

I don't understand if it is legal or not ? can we keep somewhere a list of profiles ?
With this http://developers.facebook....
, the Plaxo process is not legal, no ? yes ?

Victor

The discussion here :
http://groups.google.fr/gro...

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Badger Gravling — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 08:44:12 -0000

I'm not a user or fan of Plaxo, as I've always been hit by lots of unnecessary update information by contacts of mine who do use it...

But if the application collected name, email address and birthday, is that really valuable personal information you don't want to give out? Then take it off your Facebook profile!

It would take most people about 30 seconds to find my name and email address on countless websites, including my business, and my blog. And despite the fact I tend to keep my birthday private, I'm fairly sure that it would be available on some sites I've forgotten.

If I've done that, then it's publicly available and out there, whether it's to five friends, or five thousand. It's down to you to decide what information your friends might scrape, or copy and paste into Outlook, and what you might wish to remain private.

After all, how do ya think Spam email works, for crying out loud?

If you think this is scary, I take it you haven't heard of Spokeo?
http://thewayoftheweb.blogs...
Monitor all your friends, across lots of networks, without them knowing...

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James — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 08:00:22 -0000

Did you ask all of your 5,000 friends permission to take their data outside of Facebook to be used in your 3rd party application? (Outlook) As far as I'm aware, people need to opt-in to this sort of thing for data protection here in the UK. This simply appears to be a flagrant disregard for people that have naievly been accepted as a friend on Facebook, only to have their data used for your and Plaxos self promotion.

Shame on you

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David Cushman — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:00:00 -0000

a ludicrous amount of fuss over nothing

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Adam C. — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:31:35 -0000

Well I was going to say that you have my info for Plaxo already because I comment here, but I realized that the e-mail address in my WP.com profile is not the one I have in use for Plaxo.

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Tyler — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:01:59 -0000

Who in the hell has 5,000 friends? Can it be anything but self-serving to gather that many "friends" on any network? If you agreed to be Robert's friend without really knowing Robert and without really being his friend, then you are a stupid sheep and deserve to have Robert scrape your data and share it with his real friends, the people with whom he had an NDA. And if you were a real friend of Robert, you probably already knew he'd yank your information and give it to some other network and you wouldn't have cared one whit. So all you whiners can just shut your pie hole. You deserved what you got. Now go suck up to some other "famous" blogger. It will make you feel important every time you see your name on his "friends" list with the 4,999 others there. And of course, in the interests of full disclosure, I've only written this post to get a link from Scoble's site back to my horribly neglected blog. Thanks, Robert for giving me the backlink. -Tyler