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Becoming independent of Facebook, starting with email

November 17th, 2010

Many people do not trust Facebook, yet still don’t want to go as far as delete their Facebook accounts permanently. Facebook by no means has assured it’s users that their privacy is a top priority. Certainly the movie The Social Network has not helped Facebook in their PR problems with information privacy either.

Information independence is becoming a greater concern and need for people, as privacy issues come to light in the news and at the dinner table (so to speak).

Lifehacker recently produced a video (displayed below), which shows how to export all your Facebook friends’ email addresses using Yahoo’s recently awarded access to Facebook data. After exporting your Facebook contacts, you can then freely migrate to another provider.



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