I'm just waiting for the backroom deal between the two that will allow two way sharing between only them.
But Google lets you export your data. So if Facebook exports to Google, then your data can go anywhere, and we've won!
Gmail: Trap my contacts now (warning when exporting contacts to Facebook)
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#62This is a really clever move from Google and I think many people will read this and stop giving there data to Facebook.
I have a dump feeling about giving all of my data to Facebook cause they have sure enough.
Otherwise: it's free and they are making money with your data right?
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#63As luck would have it, I picked today to set up a Facebook profile for me girlfriend. I'm now really angry with Google.
It used to be a 30 second task to sift through your address book and check off people to send friend requests to. Now, thanks to Google behaving like children, I need to figure out how to export her contacts as a text file so that I can upload it to Facebook.
Google, please stop.
You are pissing off your customers.
Edit: subsititure Users for Customers in the previous sentence if it helps you to parse it. The end result is still the same: The people who use Google's service are being punished by Google for the actions of a 3rd party.
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#64Maybe google is trying to get facebook to open up now, so it'll be in time for everyone to be able to use it to migrate to Google Me.
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#65The warning says: "Here’s the not-so-fine print. You have been directed to this page from a site that doesn’t allow you to re-export your data to other services, essentially locking up your contact data about your friends." I think this is misleading - Doesn't Facebook allow you to download all of your data, just like Google? As much as I dislike Facebook's privacy policies, the mudslinging seems a little thick from…
Facebook to my knowledge does not let you export your friends email addresses in a way that they could be synced with your email service. I think that if they did, it would be beneficial to everyone. Their claim that email addresses are private is bogus. They could add buttons to the privacy settings that would allow a user to block their email from being access by friends. There is no valid, as in non anti competiti…
You can export your friends' email addresses from Facebook to sites that they have a deal with - e.g. Yahoo Mail.
You can then export from there as CSV etc., and pull them into other services. I set up a one-time Ymail account just to try this out, and it worked just fine.
So any claims by Facebook that they can't do this due to users' privacy etc are completely bogus. It's just that Google won't give them money to do it.
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#66This is such bullshit. A service that won't let me "get my contact information out"? Nice way to frame this in terms of "openness" too, apparently riding "open" for all it's worth with Android is not enough. Can I just "get out" all of my personal information from Google? No? Isn't Google "open" enough to let me do it? We think this is an important thing for you to know before you import your data there. Did you also…
> Can I just "get out" all of my personal information from Google? Mostly yes. http://www.dataliberation.org/
And Google won't be keeping a copy of anything you export or "move" out, right?
I'm not terribly interested in a chance to "get out" my data from services that will keep my data anyway.
They also did give Facebook my GMail contacts, which I thought was scuzzy, but hey that's alright as long as I can export stuff out from various Google services!
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#67I am not sure if the back and forth between Google and Facebook is intriguing or just childish at this point. Neither is doing this for the users. They are doing it to help their services grow and ultimately to help their bottom line grow. Believing anything else would be naive at this point.
Yes, but on this users' (or at least my) interests and Google's coincide.
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#68As luck would have it, I picked today to set up a Facebook profile for me girlfriend. I'm now really angry with Google. It used to be a 30 second task to sift through your address book and check off people to send friend requests to. Now, thanks to Google behaving like children, I need to figure out how to export her contacts as a text file so that I can upload it to Facebook. Google, please stop. You are pissing off…
Customers? How much money have you paid Google for services this year?
Re: Gmail: Trap my contacts now (warning when exporting contacts to Facebook)
#69As luck would have it, I picked today to set up a Facebook profile for me girlfriend. I'm now really angry with Google. It used to be a 30 second task to sift through your address book and check off people to send friend requests to. Now, thanks to Google behaving like children, I need to figure out how to export her contacts as a text file so that I can upload it to Facebook. Google, please stop. You are pissing off…
Can't you just click "proceed" when you get to this page?
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#70What bothers me is that Google is taking the stance that they have the right to lock my data in their service if they feel like it. That's why that position, to me, is untenable. Don't do evil indeed: you just conceded the other side (Facebook) their main argument (that they don't have to be open, only if they feel like it).
In what way is Google taking that stance? Last I checked, Google was taking the exactly opposite stance. http://www.dataliberation.org/
Obviously I must have phrased my position wrong, based on the reaction.
Yes, they are taking that stance, since they are imposing conditions on exporting data from gmail. If I owned and could do anything I wanted with my data on gmail, then Google could not impose restrictions. They just did (in their API restrictions). That's what I'm very concerned about.