Relevant quote from Google:<p>"Mass exportation of email is not standard on most social networks - when a user friends someone they don’t then expect that person to be easily able to send that contact information to a third party along with hundreds of other addresses with just one click"<p>Lets recap:<p>1. Users use data exporter en masse to abandon Orkut.<p>2. Google breaks the exporter. Supposedly a bug, coincidentally when people are actually now using it.<p>3. Google changes the exporter so emails are no longer included.<p>4. Google says social networks shouldn't be expected to allow mass email exportation.<p>5. 12 months pass<p>6. Google breaks the gmail exporter to Facebook. Social networks apparently are now expected export all e-mails. Press eats it up.<p>Look, I'm not arguing that email exporting should or shouldn't be allowed. I don't really want my friends giving my email to Farmville so they get a golden banana, but it's not the end of the world. What I don't get though, is people talking about this like Google is some godly force of good, championing the rights of users against the evil Facebook.<p>Please. Google is getting scared, and made a calculated business decision to try and slow down Facebook's growth. The rest of this is BS PR spin and Techcrunch sensationalism to fan the drama fires.