Edited by author 01-28-2003 03:30 PM
I understood that not only Outlook, but also ICQ, AOL IM and Lotus Notes contact lists are optional to be imported in this network. Not the revelation of your contact list, but mainly the notification to all contacts (friends, business associates, vague acquaintances and 'quiet' enemies) can be a serious violation of ones privacy. This kind of networking is likely to harm peoples interest. I don't see any advantage of such a tree to be made public.

Watch out Huminity spams your contacts you enter with
invites to join. You are not told this in downlaod etc

However inteface is quite interesting

I think this is ridiculous. This is really SPAM! The mailadresses are stolen in my opinion. Such a violation should be against the law.

The owners say on their website that they draw inspiration from the research of Nobel Prize winner John Nash, who showed that 'by joining forces a group can reach a higher commutative value than by competing one with another. They believe that by combining all the connection trees into one global connections map, people will enhance the value from their own contacts'. This in turn will result in more friendships, respect for one another, and sharing.

I wonder what they mean by 'enhancing the value from ones own contacts'