I'm Glad Scoble's Not My Friend

You've probably heard the buzz all over the web - poor techie-hero Robert Scoble was booted from Facebook for using a Plaxo script to scrape his friends information from Facebook and import it into Plaxo Pulse. A clear violation of Facebook's TOS, Robert's cry is that all data should be open and free.

Well, I disagree. I'm not friends with Scoble on Facebook, but if I were I'd be pissed if he took my information, without my permission, and gave it to another company (in this case, Plaxo, the spam kings). I hope and trust that none of my Facebook friends use this tool. Where I put my e-mail, name and birthday should be entirely up to me.

What's the solution here? Plaxo should create a Facebook application that asks you for this information. Yes, asks your permission. If I wanted to use it, I could then send an invitation to my friends to participate and they would have a choice.