Comments on: China Facebook Expat Group: LostLaowai

By: The Humanaught

The Humanaught — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:52:10 +0000

Hey man, thanks for pluggin’ the LLW Facebook group. As I am also new to Facebook, and only created the thing a couple days ago… we’ve already got a good solid membership growing. Fun stuff.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:54:36 +0000

Excellent. Good to hear.

It’ll be cool to put a face to the names of all the people floating around out there.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:25:42 +0000

Facebook… a site that request personal email adderss passwords in order to register. Flickster do this too. So far they’ve not abused these privaleges.

But… it’s not surprising they’re growing. They offer some functionality, but the growth is because everyone gets spammed-by-proxy by a friend acting as agent for Facebook (which makes it OK I guess).

At best it’s a viral way to grow a website. At worse it’s a ploy to uncover millions of email accounts. I think it lays firmly in-between. But I think the president such sites face is 100% negative as regular Internet users should be encouraged NOT to give out their passwords. Maybe next month another ‘cool’ site is launched which is less upstanding with regards to privacy. It’s irresponsible and market-(money-) grubbing behaviour.

I will not be using Facebook in the near future until they stop this strategy, and I’d encourage others to avoid this, or at least seek alternatives.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:13:35 +0000

eh…
I’m not that protective about my email addresses. If anyone wants my hotmail they can have it. I have about 465 new emails and counting…

Plus I gots a yahoo account and numerous other useless email accounts.

But yeah, that it a little bit odd…