So I have two e-mail accounts. One of them is associated with my Facebook account. The other one is a Hotmail one I created for spam purposes with the name 'Santa Claus' for use with sites I didn't trust if they wanted an e-mail address. I started using the Hotmail one for MSN Messenger since I got the impression I had to use something provided by Microsoft (which may have been true at the time), and it stuck.

I just got an e-mail on the Hotmail one:

That doesn't bother me so much any more - I'm used to it. What scared me was the list of "Other people [I] may know on Facebook". There are nine people from my MSN contacts.

I don't remember doing anything that would give Facebook access to that information.

What I think happened is those nine people gave Facebook access to their own contact lists, and Facebook found me on each list and created the reverse mapping for me. Still, it took me some time to figure out and was really frigging scary in the meantime.

Tomasu comments that Google probably has even more horrific amounts of information about me, but somehow I don't mind so much. I think it's because Google are better at being (or at least appearing) honest and respectful.

Yeah. Rant for the day.

She probably was staring at your profile for a long time.

Replacing search terms with irrelevant words is not user-friendly, powerful nor respectful.

I would imagine that the character matching is a feature intended to help the majority of idiots in the world that don't care to be exact. What Google needs now is an explicit mode for those of us that know exactly what we want to search for, including special characters (i.e., programming symbols). It would probably be very expensive, but a fully-featured regex search of the Web would be teh awesome.

What a stupid video.

And I got a suggestion to add Daniel Harmon! So I did. And you confirmed.

Don't remember who it was that suggested me to you and you to me though. I think it might have been Mickaël whats-his-name. I'm sure he'll post here soon.

Just when I began to think about Facebook making vast internet search for sites you visit.

Nobody has added me yet.

Granted, I haven't yet got around to announcing who I am in either the Monster 2 or Allegro groups walls.

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The other day I received an email from linked in which made me notice that MSN contact lists are NOT private information. Had a friend who lives in town as well as Gnatinator in the list.

No idea how it even linked me to my MSN list, though. I don't use the email address for anything at all. However, I do use the name Derezo for everything, and that email is Derezo@hotmail.com.

Privacy is sooooo last millenium.