Phone Numbers of All Now on Facebook

Vanity ^ | 11 August 2011 | Windflier

[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.

[chris_bdba]

Yep if your privacy settings were set right it did not happen to your account.

[chris_bdba]

Only you can do that not FB.It is under your setting and is “disable account”.

[Blueflag]

https://www.facebook.com/contact_importer/remove_uploads.php?r=%2Fphonebook

That fixes it. It’s a non-issue.

[Adder]

My drift was: don’t look use facebook if you don’t like their policies.

But I will say it took several tries for it to “stick”.

[Adder]

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.

Yes that is true so far as it goes. But FB asked me what I wanted public and did not want and then they proceeded to change that again and again: all according to the EULA, I am sure which says in a wild paraphrase that we can change our rules at anytime.

Thats what you agree to.

So I quit.

If folks are THAT concerned, don’t give them your real name and your life history to start with. Yeah I know...yer supposed to...[shrug].

[Dr. Scarpetta]

I don’t even share information with myself.

LOL

[discostu]

All that you complain about is typical of all interactive websites. In order to post on Yahoo, or FoxNews or LinkedIn or anyplace else that let’s users add content you’re accepting a EULA that they own your content, and that they can change the rules at any time.

I’ve never given FB (or anyplace else) any info I wouldn’t allow on a billboard next to my home. My address isn’t on there, my phone number isn’t on there, my birthday isn’t on there. It’s a very simple concept, all websites are public, don’t put private things in public, if you gave them private stuff don’t complain when it winds up public.

[Windflier]

Not true. Checked mine and some friends.

Sorry Mama, but it is most definitely true. Perhaps neither you, nor any of your FB friends input their phone numbers into their profiles, and that's why you don't see any displayed.

I never input my phone number into FB, but a whole lot of my friends seem to have done so. I pull up my friends list, and their numbers are all displayed.

[Windflier]

If it was just the list of FB friends and the numbers they entered into FB, that would be one thing. But this also includes people and numbers from your cell phone, if you use a cell phone app to connect to Facebook.

Well, now I'm not so sorry that I started this thread. That's huge information, and ties directly into this issue.

Thanks for the alert.

[USMCWife6869]

I got this message, too, and I checked and none of my family’s accounts have the number on it.

[Sloth]

I found phone numbers of all my friends and have since deactivated my Facebook account.

I admit to being mystified by the uproar over this. Do you react similarly when you find your friend's numbers in the phone book?

[quintr]

I’ve never seen cell phone numbers in the phone book. I think people expect more privacy with their cell phone numbers. But then, maybe they don’t. I know I don’t appreciate telemarketing calls on my cell phone when it uses up my minutes because I don’t have a package that has unlimited minutes.