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Phone numbers on FB
Topic Started: Aug 11 2011, 09:12 AM (7,149 Views)
Indy
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I just saw this on someone's status and figured I'd share with all you FB gals, just in case

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ALL THE PHONE NUMBERS of your cell are now on facebook! Go to the top right of the screen, click on ACCOUNT, click on EDIT FRIENDS, left side of screen and click CONTACTS. You will see ALL phone numbers from your cell phone (FB friends or not) are published that you have stored in your mobile phone. TO REMOVE, go to the right column, click on "this page." Please repost this on your status, so your friends can remove their numbers and thus prevent abuse if they do not want them published.


This isn't just your friends who have posted their phone numbers on their FB page, this is ANYONE who you have their phone number in your address book on your smart phone if you access FB that way. So like Mr. I's mom is on FB but her phone number isn't showing up next to her picture in the list like others, it shows up without a picture under the name "Mom" since that's how she is in his phone.
This is really creepy, frankly.

I tried the removal thing earlier this morning and got a notice from FB that it worked but I just rechecked things now and they're still there so I'm trying to remove them again.
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Going to check my FB right now... how not cool.... :(
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Luckily all but two of my contacts had FB accounts with their numbers listed. No changes for me! :)
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Wow Indy, thanks for that. I had no idea I even HAD some of those people's cell phone numbers available to me. :rolleyes: Unbelieveable. So is it safe to assume that my non-TOC friends (the few that they are :teehee: ) have MY cell phone number next to MY profile? Eesh.
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Twiceshy
Aug 11 2011, 11:01 AM
Wow Indy, thanks for that. I had no idea I even HAD some of those people's cell phone numbers available to me. :rolleyes: Unbelieveable. So is it safe to assume that my non-TOC friends (the few that they are :teehee: ) have MY cell phone number next to MY profile? Eesh.
Yeess... probably.

Hang on, let's see if I can check for you ...

...AND, edited to add that I now realize you said NON-TOC friends. And since we're not even friends, well, I can't check up on you. :teehee:
Edited by Reynard Ridge, Aug 11 2011, 11:19 AM.
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double post
Edited by Reynard Ridge, Aug 11 2011, 11:17 AM.
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Twiceshy
Aug 11 2011, 11:01 AM
Wow Indy, thanks for that. I had no idea I even HAD some of those people's cell phone numbers available to me. :rolleyes: Unbelieveable.
I agree! :o Just deleted mine...
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HOLY $HIT...I've got some prank calling to catch up on...

HH ;)
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FB scares me sometimes.
It's one thing for one of your friends to voluntarily put their cell phone number on their profile, which some people do. Then it's on them if people they didn't want to know their number get a hold of it. But for FB to go into your phone and pull out your mom or your dentist or whatever and list that in you contacts is just creepy.
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Wow, that is creepy. I just tried to remove it, let's hope it works.
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FWIW, http://www.myfox8.com/news/wghp-story-facebook-users-concerned-numbers-posted-facebook-110811,0,7932035.story

I checked some of my friends pages, I can't see any of their friends phone numbers, so I don't think they're public.
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headlesshorseman
Aug 11 2011, 11:27 AM
HOLY $HIT...I've got some prank calling to catch up on...

HH ;)
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Aug 11 2011, 04:57 PM
FWIW, http://www.myfox8.com/news/wghp-story-facebook-users-concerned-numbers-posted-facebook-110811,0,7932035.story

I checked some of my friends pages, I can't see any of their friends phone numbers, so I don't think they're public.


Kady, you are right, the phone numbers aren't "public," in that people who are not friends with you can't see them. However, the numbers are all there when you check your contact list as per the OP.

I think that many people allow face book access to their contact lists as a way to "find friends." And by doing so, are granting FB access to their mobile number. I was stunned by the number of contacts for whom I have mobile numbers.

I can't find my mobile in my profile; and I haven't had a chance to ask my husband yet to see if my mobile exists on his contact list. My number shouldn't exists on FB, because I have never used my mobile to check FB, nor have I ever give FB permission to scan my contacts. If my number DOES exist on FB, something is rotten in Denmark. There's no way FB should have that because I have never granted permission for them to have it, nor have I ever input it.
Edited by Reynard Ridge, Aug 12 2011, 12:29 AM.
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I have never accessed FB from a phone, yet I can see everyone's numbers. I tried removing the numbers three times, and yet the numbers are still appearing.
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Reynard Ridge
Aug 11 2011, 11:25 PM
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Aug 11 2011, 04:57 PM
FWIW, http://www.myfox8.com/news/wghp-story-facebook-users-concerned-numbers-posted-facebook-110811,0,7932035.story

I checked some of my friends pages, I can't see any of their friends phone numbers, so I don't think they're public.


Kady, you are right, the phone numbers aren't "public," in that people who are not friends with you can't see them. However, the numbers are all there when you check your contact list as per the OP.
Right. I've never used a phone number to search for anyone, so I wouldn't know if that's what you can do.

I would disable it.. but my contacts in my phone that are my FB friends are linked directly to their FB account (through my phone), and I like that. They need to make it so you can just delete them off FB and not your phone, because when I try to do that, it asks if it wants me to remove that contact from my phone.

Also remember that MANY people DO post their phone numbers on FB. So if they're there in your contacts, that is one reason why.
Edited by kady05, Aug 12 2011, 03:42 AM.
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