More like Zynga apps. Could you imagine if Farmville could easily get a hold of the emails of all of your friends? God help us.

My only point is that the scenario yariv frets about is exactly what FaceBook did to grow.

Before I joined FaceBook I would get regular emails about all of my friends on FB that had uploaded my contact info via GMail.

Like Nostromo said...

Plus it's pretty clear Facebook itself needs to make a distinction between something like a "export application" (that does generate nothing-like-spam) and something like Farmville (which is only generates something-like-spam).

While this lack of distinction is a serious problem for Facebook ... it hardly qualifies as a good argument for Facebook being able to export from everyone else but not allowing exports to anyone.