Similar experience?
After having refused singing up to Facebook for years I had to do it to find my old classmates from the high school - this was a week ago - and since then I have received several hundreds of "I want to be your friend" requests with names and pictures.
It seems that Facebook has stolen the mail contact lists from all members (who had my mail-address somewhere) and then further has scrutinized all these second-round peoples mail-lists to send me all these requests.

Stunning to sit here, innocently, and getting requests from i.e. all the friends of my teenage grandchildrens. If I inadvertently click just one of them the world will probably ask: what is that old fart up to?

Even worse: In order to get rid of this swamp of spam I seemingly have to delete each and every of these fake requests one-by-one and manually.

My worst thoughts about that Facebook thing really got confirmed.

"Even worse: In order to get rid of this swamp of spam I seemingly have to delete each and every of these fake requests one-by-one and manually."

Sort by subject, click first, hold shift, click last, Shift + Del, confirm. All gone.

Bob.

Peter, she's simply subscribed to your channel, so your uploads, and additions to your playlists, appear in her digest. I guess if you set your videos to "unpublished" (or "private"), they won't appear in that bulletin. "Unpublished" just means the videos won't appear in search results, but they still show up if you embed them on the SCS forum for example.

ritsmer, I don't think facebook has stolen email addresses. Each member has willingly given them over, and the whole site (they'd have you believe) is about connecting people, so it seems to be working correctly. It's a bit of a minefield but you can control an awful lot of that, and the email notifications, through facebook's account settings and privacy settings. It's important to get into those and change them ASAP after signing up. For example, by default, someone can paste your head on a naked body, tag it as you, and it will appear on your facebook profile page and your "friends'" news feeds. At least that's how it used to be. There are a lot of sites out there to help you with the privacy settings. An example (but it might be out of date by now).

You can of course also set an automatic filter in your email client to delete stuff that gets through.

Edit: I'm quite paranoid about this stuff, but I still got caught out recently when signing up for Google Plus. I moved my Gmail contacts into a "circle" and they emailed each and every one of them telling them that I'd invited them to join Google Plus. I got loads of emails about it from people I hadn't communicated for years.

One of the first things i usually do when joining any site like youtube or facebook is to go into email preferences and change almost everything to "no". I've been a youtube member for over a year and do not receive ANY emails from them. I've been a facebook member for over 4 years and the only time i ever get an email from them is when they announce privacy policy changes.

I used to receive updates on comments from Youtube but then when Google bought them out you could only do it from gmail (bad UI compared to yahoo mail imho), so I canceled that.

Besides that, I don't think I've gotten an e-mail from YT in years.

I get requests from Facebook some times. People enter my e-mail and I get a request. I'm not signed up or ever have been. Thanks to that stupid "opt-out" law congress passed for spam I actually had to opt out of receiving them even though I never signed up. I actually get more "legit" spam now because of the opt-out rule. >:-(

I actually find that YouTube digest, in HTML mode, is a far easier way to see all my subscriptions than the site itself is. I wish they'd make the site look like their email digest.

Peter, this is nothing new. Someone simply subscribed to your You Tube page.

Thanks to all - some interesting experiences shared, and it's good to know there's nothing sinister going on further up the tube!

Ah, Bob - - nice and thank you.

How good to have real experts around :- )