There's a reason why today's
news that Path was uploading its users' entire address book to its database was stunning -- all this time Path has been positioning itself as one of the good guys! … Sort of an alternative to Facebook … a kinder, gentler social network that only wanted to keep things between you and fifty of your closest friends, and then 150.
And then ..
It's sort of jarring when a social network bills itself as private, and then quietly sucks up as much data as its leading -- and notoriously data grabby -- competitorStill, even Facebook notifies you (via iOS notifications) that it's grabbing your address book data..