For a long time I was very wary about Facebook, but finally I succumbed and signed up a few weeks ago. Everything was hunky-dory until yesterday when I discovered Facebook doing things which I find absolutely unacceptable.
Specifically, today I started receiving Friend "suggestions" for people with whom I have no mutual friends and who live in other continents and for whom I have given Facebook no information which could possibly link us.
Then I worked out that what I had done to cause this was to back up the contact phone list of my mobile to an Outlook Express address book (the only way I had of getting a copy off a phone which was dying). I don't use Outlook Express for mail and there was no previous address book. Immediately, Facebook starting suggesting people whose numbers are in that phone book and who, presumably, have them in their contact information (no doubt supposedly "Private").
To me this is totally unacceptable. I have never given Facebook permission to go snooping around on my harddrive trying to find all sorts of personal information. Who knows what they are storing? My entire browsing history? A list of everyone who has ever sent or received an email from me? Copies of every document stored on my hard disk?
Am I alone in this? Do other people regard this as OK? If so I'll just get myself back off Facebook as completely as I can, but if others feel that this is not acceptable then what's the best way to get it fixed? There are already threads on Facebook help regarding this but apparently total silence from Facebook itself.