Originally Posted by
Donegal
First thing I would do is get an email address that is only used for business. I made the mistake of using my main email to look at a friend's page on facebook and the B.S. began. Most all of the free social sites contain lurkers that find it funny to get into other people's business. If you visit any of those sites, get a free email address and use it. You can throw it away when you are done.
I visited My Space and Facebook one time each and have received thousands of B.S. email since. Live and Learn.
Also, If you neighbor down the street knows your wife's email address, he can use it to create these emails. Before you go down the street and stomp your neighbor, see if your wife uses the free social sites.
I think you ran into some other problem. Either you did something else that exposed your address at about the same time you visited Facebook or you made your entire Facebook profile including your email address public which would be asking for spam. It isn't like lurkers can hang out in cyberspace and see your email address floating by when you visit Facebook.
As to an address for "business" if you mean personal business that makes sense but if you mean commercial Internet "business" like purchases or little used sites you need to sign-up for be careful. That can be where spammers harvest your address. That is where it can help to have a spare web based email account that you use when (and if) you sign up for things on the Internet. I have an @excite.com address I have used for that purpose for years. That account gets tons of stuff that I am not interested in - probably 20-30 a day. I simply skim through the message subjects and delete 90% of them without a second glance. In my other accounts (personal business) the vast majority of email is stuff I expect..