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What really upsets me about Facebook is I refuse to start an account there but they already know everything about me because they tricked all my AOL/gmail-using friends into giving them full access to their contact lists.

So I constantly get spam from Facebook personalized with my name, location and list of friends, based on all the stupid data they have sucked up. It's borderline stalking.

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Joining and locking down the account by disabling all the notifications would make them stop spamming you. Dunno what's more important to you, getting rid of the spam, or the principle of not having an account there?

Wait, cave-in to their bullying that I join their nonsense is a solution? Was that a joke?

How about a class action lawsuit for unsolicited spam and data scrapping?

Much longer to wait for results but much more satisfying.

Sounds to me like the "spam" you are complaining about is a communications service for your friends. No lawsuit there, unless every email you get from your friends but didn't ask for is also considered spam.

Would an invite to gmail by a friend be considered spam?

Nor is this "data scrapping[sic]" you mention anything of the sort if your friends deliberately requested, or passively acquiesced, to Facebook reading their address books.

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