This response is our way of trying to protect everyone's privacy. Right now, the sites that are asking for this information, and that we are blocking as a result, gain complete access and control over your account when you enter your login info—your photos, your private messages, and your friends. In order to protect sensitive data, we make it hard for spam to spread through Facebook.

We know that there are legitimate places where it would be useful to have your Facebook Friend List with you, which is why we've been working so hard on Facebook Connect. Our goal there is to allow you to bring any information you want over to any service you want, while still maintaining all of our privacy standards across the web. That way, you will have control over your information—not anyone else.



Ryan works on the site security team and continues to be a dodge ball ninja.