Comments on: How Bebo Ruined My Life

By: mitchdcba

mitchdcba — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 01:08:58 +0000

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By: Whitney Hess

Whitney Hess — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:35:03 +0000

I really appreciate you kind remarks. Glad someone gets it :)

By: Syp

Syp — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:02:42 +0000

Whitney, your posts are so spot-on (I know this is a > 1 year ago…catching up!). There are people commenting saying, “who cares?”, but being a professional with a good reputation makes you want to care. Worst of all, it was out of your control. You've just inspired me to update my address book!

By: ravm

ravm — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:27:53 +0000

I wouldn't worry about it too much. I seriously doubt they'll get added to any direct mailing lists, and really, while it may seem painfully embarrassing, I can guarantee that none of them care about it as much as you do, and none of them will give it a second thought in a week.

By: Bryan Ray

Bryan Ray — Sun, 17 May 2009 23:06:16 +0000

As a point of Internet safety, it's best if you don't allow online services to communicate with one another. Facebook wanted access to my addressbook, too, but as there's no way of knowing who has access to that information or who *might* get access to it in the future, it's far better to restrict it as much as you can.

Sure, maybe all it will do is download my addressbook and send an invite, but with access to my gmail account, it also has access to all of the information in all of the messages retained by gmail. Now, in this case that's not so bad—you're not sending mail through gmail, so probably you've already seen the worst that could happen from this incident.

What happens when some disgruntled employee at Facebook or Bebo or Social Networking du Jour decides to make the software raid a user's mail account and forward every message to everyone in the address book? It hasn't happened yet, that I am aware, but it's only a matter of time until it does.

In short, if you want to send an invitation via a social networking site, compose the email yourself and send it manually. Don't trust the sysadmins to be honest; 99.9% of them are, but .1% is still a really big number when your reputation is at stake.

Thanks for helping to raise awareness!

By: mariobourque

mariobourque — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:52:34 +0000

Nothing like taking an anonymous shot at somebody. Glad to know there are cowards out there like you. You better hope the hell we never meet.

By: Aaron Irizarry

Aaron Irizarry — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:42:40 +0000

wow bummer… I am sure friends will understand. I guess you can chalk this one up as a “note to self” for next time. :)

By: Aaron Irizarry

Aaron Irizarry — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:40:51 +0000

@voiceoftruth
really… wow that was all you could offer? why even post, I mean I am sure your well thought out and witty response probably took you most of the morning to think of, but come on.

Maybe next time you can use that time doing something a bit more productive, and not so negative… like growing up.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:39:43 +0000

Wanna Get away, www.southwest.com ;)

By: Voice of Truth

Voice of Truth — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:57:26 +0000

It's all becuase of your own stupidity. If you maintained proper relationships with people then you wouldn't have cared at all.