Posted on 08/11/2011 9:47:12 AM PDT by Windflier
WARNING to everyone: PHONE NUMBERS OF ALL are now on Facebook - including cell phone numbers!
No joke - go to the top right of the screen, click on Account, then click on Edit Friends, go left on the screen and click on Contacts.
All phone numbers are published. Please report this on your Status, so your friends can remove their numbers and thus prevent abuse.
It just means that most of your FB “friends” have used a mobile device at some point to access FB.
Nonsense...My phone number is not there.
I never even gave Facebook my phone numbers. I don't know anyone else who did either.
“Rumors claiming that your phone contacts are visible to everyone on Facebook are false. Our Contacts list, formerly called Phonebook, has existed for a long time. The phone numbers listed there were either added by your friends themselves and made visible to you, or you have previously synced your phone contacts with Facebook. Just like on your phone, only you can see these numbers.”
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/facebook
Anyone who give Facebook (or any other such application) their private information deserves what comes to them.
It’s true. I got word and checked last night. Anyone who uses FB through their cell phone or Smart phone or whatever has involuntarily given the application access to their phone book, and FB has accordingly uploaded that information into its database.
I don’t use FB through my cell phone, but most of my friends do, and lo and behold, their numbers are listed on my contacts page.
Sorry but this post is about 90% lie. Reality is thus:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2390874,00.asp
It turns out that Facebook users who sync their phone contacts with the site see those numbers pop up in their contact lists. In addition, any contact details a Facebook friend (or even a non-friend, but more on that later) has made visible publicly will appear on users’ contact lists. Finally, contact details revealed by Facebook friends to other friends but not to the public also appear.
The phone numbers listed there were either added by your friends themselves and made visible to you, or you have previously synced your phone contacts with Facebook. Just like on your phone, only you can see these numbers.”
I checked my kids. The only one that shows a phone number is my son, and he put it in his profile. My daughters don’t show.
That's one of my biggest beefs with Facebook. They treat their users like a commodity. I've had to make changes to my account more than a few times to block one of their new 'features'.
It's a real irritation.
Actually according to the EULA people accept (and the EULA of almost every other audience participation website out there) everything you put on their website IS theirs to publish as they wish.
Of course in this case the warning is pure paranoid lies, none of that data is actually published without explicit permission of the user. But hey don’t let the facts get in the way of a tirade.
You put that info in your profile, then set it up to only share with 'friends', but then you turn around and see that everyone's phone numbers are aggregated into a 'one click' list.
I'm sure that most folks didn't predict that Facebook would do that. Perhaps it's a fine point, but I see nothing wrong with alerting everyone to the latest and greatest Facebook 'improvement'.
A solution in search of a problem.
And we users can inform our friends about all of their sneaky little changes when we run across them.
What is this mobile phone application you speak of? ;)
I’m about ready to abandon, facebook, google+, email, give up my FR account. I don’t have an Iphone, I might get rid of my pay as you go cell phone, land line, ditch my bank.
Trying to keep up with all this crap is silly.
You have to have input your phone number into your Facebook profile, or have accessed FB using a handheld device for your number to show up.
I've never done either, but apparently nearly all of my 'friends' have. Just letting everyone know that this is how Facebook operates.
Yes, I found the numbers also. I don’t think these people know this is going on so I told them. If they want the numbers posted so be it, but at least they are informed.
I checked off all the privacy settings that are available on Facebook. Nobody can see anything of mine unless I want them to.
It is only the numbers of the people you have imported from your phone.
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