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Friends
Short, concise description of the idea
A way of finding LJ friends using your e-mail contacts.
Full description of the idea
A small window into which, e-mail address and password is put and you are told who of your e-mail contacts has an LJ.
An ordered list of benefits
- * Easier than trawling through LJ after LJ to try and find friends.
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Besides, you can already search by e-mail.
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This tends to result in people inviting others to LJ, only for the system to tell them that the person has an account.
So yeah, why aren't we just asking people?
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I'd support this, especially if it can be done without encouraging password insecurity - IIRC, Flickr does something like this? I'll check.
Edit: Yep! People who already have Flickr and Gmail accounts, see http://flickr.com/import/people/gmail/ .
At that URL, you see a message that says:
You need to give Flickr permission to access your Gmail address book.
We'll take you to Google where you'll be asked to let Flickr take a peek at your address book. Once you get there, click "Grant access" and you'll be returned here to find your friends.
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No, thank you. If I want people who have my e-mail address to know I have a LiveJournal, I'll tell them. If they find me some other way, so be it, but like phoenix says above, I'm already squeamish about typing my e-mail passwords into Facebook.
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Along with the caveat of "If the person has chosen to hide their email address, it is not searchable, whether by individual email search or bulk search as proposed"? Because I'd be down with it as long as both of these stipulations were followed. *pokes phoenixdreaming for her response too :) *
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* Some people would be unwilling to provide their password
You mean, like, anyone with the tiniest f***ing clue?!? =8o\
And again, a thousand times no, thankyou very much. With a very large side-order of "please, *PLEASE* don't do this!".
People who want you to be able to associate their LJ account with their email address already do so, and as others have noted this is searchable already. The people who don't do so, don't *want* to do so. So without violating users' privacy in a big way, this wouldn't give you anything you don't already have the power to do quite simply.
See also what others have said about *simply asking*.
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