Update on StumbleUpon nightmare- emailing company management

I am battling a panic attack here as I try to figure out what happened. Best I can determine, their AJAX (Javascript/XML) interface on their checkbox feature completely tanked when I checked my address book.

I am taking this VERY seriously. For over 10 years, I have made a point of never emailing people without the legitimate context to. When using a social network I *NEVER* send an email to a single person in my address book who is not ALREADY on that network.

You see, those who are already on are more likely to use it and spread the word. Why send unsolicited emails to services these people may never want to use?

More importantly, why expose my friends, family and worse - acquaintances and professional colleagues to services that may someday release more information then they want to share? It's certainly not MY place to hand over that information. Hell, this is why I've spent AT LEAST the last 5 years ranting about trust-relationships.

And one single point of failure on Yet Another Social Networl of StumbleUpon has killed my own trust levels.

Those of you who have responded to this horrible action with a laugh and a smile, I thank you.

I've sent the following email to the management team at StumbleUpon in hopes they will respect my polite request:

'm disappointed to be having to write this email. I am an avid supporter of social networks and have accounts on almost all of them.

Today, I did an update in StumbleUpon to see who from my contact list
was already a member.

I made sure everything was unchecked and the people I did not want to
receive messages, didn't receive them.

Then I clicked on the "Next" button and my world imploded.

Over 5,000 contacts and several hundred email lists got spammed with a
StumbleUpon email "from me" that I did not send them.

I tried to look at it a hundred times. Did the "uncheck all" or "check
all" checkbox not function properly? What was going on?

I only ever use such import services to check and see who exists on
any networks. I NEVER send out an email to anyone else. Ever.
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That being said, what's done is done.

Can I please expedite deletion of my StumbleUpon account and get some
sort of written confirmation that the contacts both emailed and
downloaded from my GMail account will not be used in ANY manner once
my account is deleted?

Please be in touch at your earliest convenience.

I only hope they will change their interface or add more prompts in case the JavaScript isn't properly working.

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