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		Hisoka on June 30, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Anyone working at Facebook: what happening at Face... It's funny. Google Profiles actually exposes your email addresses to harvestors: (ie profiles.google.com/GMAIL_USERNAME). Google+ at least fixes that.

calloc on July 1, 2011 [–]

I actually preferred that since it made the URL easy to remember and easy to link. gmail's spam protection is extremely good.

AltIvan on July 1, 2011 | [–]

The word "extremely" in that sentence is extremely accurate.

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