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Facebook software?

by Pandawdy
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I'm looking for a piece of software that can look at a Facebook profile and attempt to look at all the friends on that profile, then attempt to find a mailing address for those people.

Does such a piece of software exist? Would it violate any rules on Facebook?
#facebook #software
  • Profile picture of the author danieldesai
    Originally Posted by Pandawdy View Post

    I'm looking for a piece of software that can look at a Facebook profile and attempt to look at all the friends on that profile, then attempt to find a mailing address for those people.

    Does such a piece of software exist? Would it violate any rules on Facebook?
    I don't know for sure if that would violate any Terms of Service rules but I think it's highly probable that it will.

    After all, there's only one reason one might need a mailing address for all those people - to contact them via email.

    The thing is, unsolicited marketing emails are illegal and you can get criminally prosecuted for that, so I'd suggest you reconsider whatever it is you intend to do with those email addresses should you get your hands on them (and I hope for your sake you don't).

    Regards,
    Daniel
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    • Profile picture of the author Pandawdy
      Originally Posted by danieldesai View Post

      I don't know for sure if that would violate any Terms of Service rules but I think it's highly probable that it will.

      After all, there's only one reason one might need a mailing address for all those people - to contact them via email.

      The thing is, unsolicited marketing emails are illegal and you can get criminally prosecuted for that, so I'd suggest you reconsider whatever it is you intend to do with those email addresses should you get your hands on them (and I hope for your sake you don't).

      Regards,
      Daniel
      I agree that email spam is a bad thing. I was actually asking if enough data could be gathered from a Facebook profile and then the physical mailing address could be found. Maybe using whitepages.com or something similar.

      I think it's still OK to send unsolicited snail mail although it's costing more and more.
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  • Profile picture of the author Regional Warrior
    Originally Posted by Pandawdy View Post

    I'm looking for a piece of software that can look at a Facebook profile and attempt to look at all the friends on that profile, then attempt to find a mailing address for those people.

    Does such a piece of software exist? Would it violate any rules on Facebook?
    Yes it is against the TOS for privacy , BTW as far as I know there are no address listed in FB so go game somewhere else
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  • Profile picture of the author Project Sniper
    Originally Posted by Pandawdy View Post

    I'm looking for a piece of software that can look at a Facebook profile and attempt to look at all the friends on that profile, then attempt to find a mailing address for those people.

    Does such a piece of software exist? Would it violate any rules on Facebook?
    Software like that doesn't exist anymore. Facebook has banned this activity and upgrading their code to block all of this activity. Remember the FaceBook team or High End University students and graduates who are professional engineers aka hackers.

    To get a software like that, you'll have to hire VERY good hackers and still the software wouldnt work because facebook will find out if something is scraping there servers.
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