Wouldn’t it be nice if you could find friends on Facebook without having to give out your webmail or Contacts information (which in my case don’t list all my friends anyway…)?

You see that’s the problem with Facebook: as a way of interacting with existing friends, it doesn’t really work quite as well as MySpace or LiveJournal, I don’t think.

And for those of us who use different e-mail addresses for different purposes, people entering their personal Hotmail/Gmail/etc. log-in details and/or providing access to their contacts database in the hope of finding existing friends on Facebook won’t find me anyway. I tend to use {service/company}@{one_of_my_domain_names} e-mail addresses to register with sites like this, so the e-mail addresses I give to my friends and associates to contact me would be useless.

The other aspect to this, of course, is that there’s the whole issue of trust and privacy with your contact database. Facebook may or may not be super-legitimate but, like Yuku used to do*, they do seek your contact database to search.

*The last time I looked, when registering at Yuku they suggested giving them your web-based e-mail account log-in details to search for friends already on Yuku. Given their history, trust isn’t something I’d associate with Yuku…