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Facebook and LinkedIn display a list of contacts from your email and allow you to select which ones to send invites (spam) to. And it is usually an optional step that can be skipped.

In my eyes, this is OK because it the page is clear about what they want and that it will email your contacts that you select.

Of course this is what I recall from when I signed up a while ago, so I could be wrong.



However, Facebook is reportedly storing contacts imported but not selected, and using them for friend suggestions - see http://www.insidefacebook.com/2009/06/12/facebook-now-sugges...

Personally, I'd never give an email password to a third party, no matter what they claim they'll do with it.




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