Never give your email password to one of these sites! While you are signing up, read everything very carefully! Do NOT get in a hurry and just keep clicking 'Next' without reading! This can cause you to send 'invitations' to everyone in your address book and make a lot of folks really mad at you!
If you belong to a Yahoo Group and you give one of these sites the login and password to your email account, this social network (including Facebook) will spam the Yahoo Group and maybe most of the members. This kind of stuff will, of course, get you banned as most folks don't like being spammed, especially the group owner/moderators.
You can join one of these groups without offering up your email security (password). Most if not all have a 'skip this' option.
If you think about it, how do you know what those sites will do with your email password? I know, most of them say they won't store it. That, my friends, may be a big fat lie! If they don't store it, then why do I keep getting reminders in my email that someone has invited me to join them on Facebook! They at least still have all those email addresses so they can spam everyone over and over again all the folks who don't join them on Facebook!
Another thought; who's to say someone who has access to that spammer's delight of a humongous email database might decide to 'cash in' and sell that list?
So if you have foolishly given that social network the login and password so they can access your address book, at least undo the damage and change the password to your email account. And while you are at it, make that password really hard to guess to prevent a scumbag from hacking your email account!
Martha
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