Facebook Gives Out Your Address and Phone Number

NBC Miami ^ | 1/17/2011 | BARBARA E. HERNANDEZ

[DManA]

I’ve got your phone number and address. I call your phone number. No answer. Pretty good chance your home is empty. If I was unscrupulous, what could I do with that info?

[napscoordinator]

More Facebook Bashing. And Sarah thinks she has it bad. Jealousy over a company that has more than 600 million members must piss some people off.

[Bigh4u2]

Anyone who puts their address and phone number on FB is an idiot.

[Jim W N]

I’ve never trusted Facebook and recently finally figured out how to delete my name off of there.

[isthisnickcool]

People actually give that information to Facebook? LOL!

[steve86]

Well, it would be a fake address and phone number in my case, to go with the fake name and email used only toward that end. But my name really is Steve.

[steve86]

Your name and other info is still in the archives and could still be misused.

[CedarDave]

For the ping list.

[discostu]

Not if they don’t have it they won’t.

Really why people put that much information on any publicly accessed website is beyond me. There’s nothing in my FB account that I wouldn’t put on a billboard. Which includes no address and no phone number.

[ottbmare]

They can’t give out your address and phone number unless they know those things. How would they know this unless you tell them? Most of us aren’t foolish enough to put that data anywhere on FB, public or private.

Out of all my hundreds of FB friends, acquaintances, correspondents, and business contacts, not one of them has a non-business phone or address visible. I don’t think there’s even a place to put your address when you’re signing up for FB the first time.

[Straight Vermonter]

Isn’t this what phone books have done for 100 years? Why is it a crisis now?

[Rebelbase]

Somehow I’ve managed to survive life without a facebook account.

[libh8er]

Facebook is extremely restrictive it comes to their developer API. I found that out when I started writing my first Facebook app. Even information that is public and readily available through the browser such as public friends lists and public wall posts, etc.. a user will have to grant explicit permissions for before any app can access it. And the app will have to get permission from every such user who wishes to use that app. Otherwise the app is completely blind to the facebook world.. including things we can see easily in our browser.

[RobRoy]

>>I’ve got your phone number and address. I call your phone number. No answer. Pretty good chance your home is empty. If I was unscrupulous, what could I do with that info?<<

I dunno. What did you do with it when you used a phone book?

[steve86]

Isn’t this what phone books have done for 100 years? Why is it a crisis now?

Because your white pages entry doesn't contain porn videos, affiliations with Sarah Palin and other material that could be used against you.

[ReneeLynn]

No address, no phone number, not even a real name. It was none of FB’s business.

[RobRoy]

I never give those sites real information. Heck, I noticed a few months back that a bunch of people were wishing me a happy birthday and wondered what was up. Then I remembered the bogus birthday I entered.

Heck, my age on sites has ranged from 25 to 65. You sometimes have to give a REAL address though. Thanks to modern postal software and coordination with business, they can determine the validity of an address, so I just pick some business address.

[RobRoy]

>>Somehow I’ve managed to survive life without a facebook account.<<

The only reason I got one was to spy on my daughters. ;)

However, it was just a hassle and there is no need to spy, so I just stopped using it. I did find out a LOT of people waste a LOT of time on something called Farmville.

[sodpoodle]

No Facebook or MySpace or Ebay or Angies List or Craigslist.

Thank you very much;)