On 19 July, 21:58, John Stumbles wrote:
Having just, with some unease*, bitten the bullet and signed up to
facebook** I'm gobsmacked how many people it suggests as friends, most
of whome I know but some I haven't corresponded with for years. How does
it do it? I haven't offered it my address book but ISTR it invited me to
do that. Is it that everyone else has done so and it's finding my
email addy in other people's address books and offering links that way?

No idea. It seems far too clever to me.

I don't know why people worry about facebook. Google, eBay, and my
bank already know far more about me than I do.

At least they're "careful". In Homebase the other day, I noticed that
their ordering system was web-based, and IE had helpfully stored all
previously entered details as auto-complete entries! So you got
everyone's name, address, phone number etc all stored right there on
the PC for anyone to call up, even if they didn't have access to the
orders themselves.

* I have a deep sense of unease that when They come to get Us we'll have
done most of the detective work for them :-

It won't be "them" who come for us this way - "they" don't understand
technology well enough. Depending who "they" are! ;-)

Cheers,
David.