Update on Email ‘Faces’
New to the work machine is the Facebook plug-in for the Outlook Social Connector. The Social Connector in Outlook 2001 works very similarly to xnobi – It meshes social media info with that old email and contacts. At first, I liked having it for keeping up-to-date with work-friends. You could see their Facebook updates from last night before wondering why they were not yet at their desks by 10:30am.
After a little more use, however, its starting to get creepy. You see, many of my vendor contacts, client contacts, and random email addresses floating around in my address book are constantly being compared to Facebook. So now, especially with people who over-share, I see way too much. A guy that I know of by email address alone now shows up with a picture of him kissing his kitchen refrigerator (his public FB profile picture). The office manager of a network/electrical wiring company now greets my inbox with a spooky picture of her newborn son in Halloween gear.
I have updated my Facebook privacy settings twice this week because of this and that
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