Francois Labreque <fla### [at] videotronca> wrote:

> > How would Facebook know anyway?
>
> Facebook knows a Christopher Lipka who has your e-mail address in his
> address book.  Or vice-versa.  One of the two has allowed FB to persuse
> his local address book (probably with a mobile app, where these things
> tend to happen without our knowledge)

I don't have a smart phone, so it wasn't a mobile app.  (This is likely to
change, however, as society is hell bent on making it as difficult as possible
to function without one.  I recently bought a food product for which the
preparation instructions were not on the package; you could only access them via
a QR code!)

However, I did link my Facebook account to my Yahoo! account, after which I
discovered that every frickin' article I read on Yahoo! was posted to my FB
wall!  And possibly emailed to me as well, but I don't remember, because I
filter all the crap from Facebook.  I very quickly found that setting and shut
it off.  I don't think my FB friends want to be bothered with that chaff any
more than I wish to share it.

Clipka is not in my address book.  Facebook could find his email address if they
spied on my personal email, but I would think that Yahoo! wouldn't give them
that sort of access.

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