Soon, Gmail Users Won’t Be capable of Find Contacts on Facebook [Google]

After Google hired the Facebook app developer (it was ” frustrating” claims Zuckerberg), their relationship has now soured even more, as Google’s changed their terms of service so Gmail users can’t import their contacts to Facebook-because Facebook doesn’t reciprocate.

This small change to the terms of service will mean that Facebook can not use Google’s Contacts API, unless it to reciprocates and allows Facebook contacts to be exported the wrong way.

I’m sure Gmail users reading this can remember how easy it was finding friends on Facebook, by way of typing in their email and password and allowing a scan of their addresses. Google told TechCrunch that:

” We have got decided to switch our approach slightly to reflect the indisputable fact that users often aren’t aware that after they have got imported their contacts into sites like Facebook they’re effectively trapped. Google users will still be free to export their contacts from our products to their computers in an open, machine-readable format–and when they have done that they may be able to then import those contacts into any service they choose. However, we’ll not allow websites to automate the import of users’ Google Contacts (via our API) unless they permit similar export to other sites.”

It’d be a shame if this useful tool disappeared for Gmail users, but I do admire Google’s stubbornness here. Hopefully their tough stance will work for them better than their attempt at getting China to stop web censorship ever did . [ TechCrunch ]

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