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> how on earth could that have been a part of an earlier import contact feature? Did they already ask users for their email password for that

Yes they did. I remember people complaining about it many years ago. Here’s a page from 2012 describing it I found using google advanced search: https://smallbusiness.chron.com/import-email-facebook-44162....

> When you create a Facebook page for your business, you can import your email list of contacts directly into Facebook. From there, you can suggest your Facebook page directly to your customers. Facebook can interact with a range of email providers and only needs your email accounts's username and password to import your contacts.

Here’s another from 2011 https://www.techwalla.com/articles/how-to-import-contacts-to...

> Type your email address and password for the Web-based email or instant-messaging service that you want to import into the dialog boxes and click "Find Friends."




Thanks! Unbelievable that this existed.




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