Your Phone Number Is Now On Facebook!!!

[donheld]

Go to the top right of your screen, click Account, then Edit Friends. Go to the left side of your screen and click Phonebook. Everyone's phone #s are now being published! PLEASE REPOST to let your friends know this is happening so they can remove their phone #s (and addresses) by changing their privacy settings. (Privacy Settings ~ Phone ~ Customize ~ Only Me.) PASS IT ON!!!!!

[d_r]

1. I don't get it

if they didn't want their friends to have their phone number, why would they have put it on there? Why set your phone number so only you can see it? In case you forget it? Why enter it in the first place unless you wanted your friends to have it?

[conscious evolution]

33. The user did not put it on the list

FB has an app that publish's the number of anyone who uses their cell phone to interact with FB.

[nickinSTL]

57. I use the FB app

and my phone # isn't on there.

Now, it may be that there was a setting somewhere that I disabled it, or that there is a different app, I don't know - but my number isn't there, nor are the numbers of any of my contacts who are on FB.

Some of my FB friends have their numbers on there, but I think they all entered them themselves.

[conscious evolution]

59. Have a friend check their contact list

to see if they see your #.

[nickinSTL]

63. nope.

my wife can't see my number either.

She can see the numbers of several of her friends, but not mine.

[Lucian]

2. Duh.

I put it there. You can easily fix it by deleting your phone number if you don't want it there. I have it where only my friends can see it.

[donheld]

5. There are degrees of friendship

I'm friends on Facebook with several DU'ers. We are not friends to the point where many of them would want a phone call from me. I, of course would only call with prior approval. Others might not be so hesitant.

[Lucian]

13. You can customize those settings...

so the friends you have that you don't want to have your phone number won't be able to see it.

[ohheckyeah]

17. I can't even find a place to enter a phone number.

Where is it?

[Dead_Parrot]

18. "Edit my profile" - "Contact information". nt

[ohheckyeah]

56. nothing there for a phone number

[niyad]

3. and some people wonder why I don't do facebook

[drm604]

7. So don't put your number on Facebook,

or anything else that you don't want people to see.

However, I do think that "Only Me" should be the default privacy setting for things like address and phone numbers.

[Dead_Parrot]

11. What's the point in that?

Not wishing to be too snarky, but unless you frequently forget where you live why bother entering the information if only you can see it?

[proud2BlibKansan]

22. I have mine set for only me to keep everything private

I don't have my phone number on FB but I can't be sure that FB won't eventually allow someone else to put my number up. So I set it up so I am the only one who can see it.

[drm604]

28. Like I said, don't put it in the first place.

But regardless, the default setting should be complete privacy. Some people just blindly fill out forms without thinking about potential consequences.

Maybe they're elderly and are signing up so they can see pictures of the grandkids. They've filled out forms their whole lives without having to worry about the info ending up on a public billboard and just enter information almost automatically.

The result of such shortsighted or automatic behavior shouldn't be exposure of your personal info to the world.

[pipi_k]

31. This actually should be a call to families of the elderly

to always have someone available to sort of monitor what their loved ones are doing, in real life, and on the computer.

Luckily, Mr P and I are too damned cynical to get caught up in the usual scams, and I myself get regular FaceBook updates from a site called "Hoax Slayers", which debunks many of the other, less well known hoaxes and scams, not to mention the "Chicken Little" rumors people are so fond of getting outraged over and passing on.

[drm604]

52. Oh, I agree that a lot of the hysteria over Facebook is Chicken Little stuff,

but I do think that ethically the default settings should be for maximum privacy.

What does confuse me is why Facebook doesn't make that the default at least for things like phone numbers. I can't see any economic advantage to them in exposing people's numbers, but there is potential for more negative publicity over it. So what do they gain from it?

[cutlassmama]

25. +1

[Orrex]

4. Why anyone would put "private" information on Facebook is utterly beyond me

Posting something on FB is like standing in the middle of Times Square and shouting with a bullhorn.

If you want it private, don't post it. At all.

[Axle_techie]

6. Shouting with a bullhorn in times square

leaves even less of a paper trail than facebook...

[Lucian]

15. Not the same.

Obviously you've never been on facebook. Otherwise you'd know you can change your privacy settings to where only certain people can see your info.

[Orrex]

30. Then the OP's complaining about nothing?

Obviously you've never been on facebook. Otherwise you'd know you can change your privacy settings to where only certain people can see your info.

Sure, that's the policy now. But what happens when they amend their 500-page privacy policy again in three weeks?

[Lucian]

53. Yes. The OP is complaining about nothing.

Don't want your phone number listed on FB? Then don't put it on there.

Simple. As. That.

[greyl]

8. No, not everyone's.

Only those who gave the number to FB. (edit: plus have their privacy settings to share the number /edit)

Only 12 percent of my friends have their numbers showing up.

[Dead_Parrot]

9. Err, they always were

Under Info - Contact Information. The default setting is "friends only", and they still have to type it in.

Zomg! Facebook have put information you could already see into a list! Teh Horrorz!

[Lucian]

16. LOL

[Drunken Irishman]

10. I have my cell on there...

Generally, I don't answer my cell unless I know the number. So it's no big deal for me.

[pipi_k]

40. Me too...over 120 people have access to that number...

But still, nobody ever calls.

I'm starting to get a complex. :cry:

[HardWorkingDem]

12. Hey, I appreciate the heads up....

Didn't know these numbers were there and appreciate the information.

[Warren DeMontague]

14. !!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4IqAMwAGn1w/SEmR-fY-iPI/AAAAAAAADaY/mxSdRfkLhaA/s400/FREAKING+OUT.gif

[peacetalksforall]

19. Everything I hear about facebook is a grand turnoff. Might as well use a sky writer and share

everything. At least you can see the trail and there is an end unless people take photos of the writing and there is no strong wind.

[proud2BlibKansan]

20. Mine isn't cause I never gave it to FB

[avaistheone1]

21. Thank you for posting this.

[Warren DeMontague]

23. That's right, it is. [phone]. Those privacy-nabbing cads at FB also have my cell number.

[phone].

[AnArmyVeteran]

64. Hey, that's MY number!

[tkmorris]

24. About a million people get my phone number delivered to their door

Twice a year, every year. It's in a big book with a whole lot of other people's phone numbers too. Those who don't get the delivery can go to a website which will give them the number, quick as wink.

I think people obsess over privacy on the web a bit too much. Or at least they obsess about the wrong things. I don't care if someone gets my phone number, or my address. They are readily available, and have been since long before anyone used the internet. Not to disparage the OP, everyone has a different view of piracy, but protect your credit card #'s etc. and forget worrying about whether somebody can get a satellite view of your house I say. Mine's a hovel BTW, don't waste your time :evilgrin:

[NightWatcher]

26. Best Response Evah! You Win

[proud2BlibKansan]

27. Not me - no land line`

And when I did have one it was unlisted.

[pipi_k]

39. That's what's so funny/sad about the whole thing

People go crazy over information they have control over on FaceBook, but either don't care, or don't know about, information they have absolutely NO control over that's out there in the real/cyber world aside from FaceBook.

I can do a search of myself using a former married name which I haven't used in over 15 years, and get all kinds of information...addresses and such going back 20+ years. BEFORE becoming a member of FaceBook. BEFORE using the Internet.

In fact, I seem to have more privacy now than I did back then. I've done searches on myself using my present married name and there's almost nothing. And what is available, I'm not worried about.

I wonder how many people know how much of their "confidential" information is being thrown out by banks and doctors, etc. without being shredded first? Just heaved into a dumpster for anyone to find. It happened recently at a bank in my area. Loads of financial records, including social security and account numbers, of unsuspecting people.

But....

once again, FaceBook is equated with The Devil.

oy...

:eyes:


PS...I've looked on Google Maps for satellite views of my house too...So far the only detail anyone can see is the large pond out back. :7

[uncommon]

45. ftw

[Xithras]

48. My real problem with it is the kids...

Personally, I could give a damn about my home number. Like you, I'm listed in the phone book, so I don't consider that to be private information anyway.

On a whim though, after reading this, I did look up the phonebook feature (never looked at it before). I was disturbed to see my 16 year old daughter at the top of the list, with her cellphone number clearly listed. My daughter is one of those Facebook "collectors" who friends just about anyone who asks, and has more than 900 friends at this point...including half her high school and teenagers in other countries. I'm not so comfortable with the idea of every one of them having her cell number.

[pipi_k]

65. I wouldn't feel comfortable with it either

Might be a good idea at this point to tell her to remove the number from her profile, or she won't HAVE a cell phone number to give out.

Then keep monitoring her page every so often.

Just a suggestion...

[Cal33]

29. I never signed up with Facebook.

[MineralMan]

32. Your Phone Number is Now on The INTERNET!

For pete's sake. There are dozens of websites where phone numbers can be looked up. I never entered my phone number in Facebook. Apparently, they've found the numbers themselves.

Want a treat? Type your full phone number into Google.

[Iggo]

51. ' Want a treat? Type your full phone number into Google '

I did. I looked at the first couple of pages on Google and my name wasn't on there anywhere that I could see. The sites that did have my full phone number were just lists of thousands of phone numbers that had the same area code and prefix. There are sites that say they'll give you the info for a price. For example, there was one site called something like 'reverse phone detective' or something. They showed some general teaser info trying to get me on the hook. They got the state right (California) but missed the the county & city (which is important in SoCal, as we have some pretty huge counties), and they show my cell phone as a land line. Fail.

However, I do not doubt that, if I ever sign up for Facebook, my phone number will be there. They probably look a little harder than I just did.

[hobbit709]

34. Anything that didn't require an entry, I left blank

Phone numbers being in that category. Anything that required an entry may or may not be 100% truthful.
That's how I dealt with it.

[JerseygirlCT]

35. If you were fool enough to put it there

Don't fill that in, and it's not there to be seen.

[City of Mills]

36. I know. Yet, nobody ever calls me...

I'm so lonely!

[Bluenorthwest]

37. Just fyi

I have hundreds of Facebook 'friends'. My phonebook list is not even 20 people long. Most of those people have a good reason to post a number, which is just that 'a number' not 'the number'. It is a work tool for many people. Less than 15% of my FB pals have a number listed. Those who do have reason. One has his number listed as 8.5 teehee.
FB is a tool for me. A tool has to be wielded well or it can put your eye out.

[bigwillq]

61. Tell 8.5 to call me!

:evilgrin: :rofl: :P ;) :)

[cbdo2007]

38. Actually my phone number is NOT on Facebook. Why would I give my

phone number out to all of those people when it's so much easier just to catch up with them on Facebook?

[Statistical]

41. Correction to headline: If YOU put your phone number on facebook it is on facebook.

OH NOES I put my phonenumber of facebook and I just check and get this MY PHONE-NUMBER IS ON FACEBOOK.

It is scary.

Like right here on DU I typed a letter and it appeared.

this one -> A

Now the whole world can see that "A". Why didn't DU warn me that by pushing the A key, then clicking "post message" I would post a message with the letter A in it? I am starting a thread warning people that DU is "tricking them". If you post something on DU people can see it, and not just for friends either, even your enemies or people you don't know can see it.

[tjwash]

42. OMG!! I entered my phone number on Facebook...and...now...its on Facebook!

How ever did this happen? :freak:

I love message board outrage. :rofl:

I figure somehow that this is all President Obama's fault.

[pipi_k]

47. That's not the half of it, even....

I entered all kinds of personal information, posted a picture of myself drunk as a skunk at some skanky bar, flipping my middle fingers at people and exposing my breasts, and didn't make my profile "private" and now the whole world can see what a mental midget I am!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


AUGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

Those evil Face Book bastards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111!!!!!!


I'm going to SUE them for ruining my life!11!!!!!!!!!!!



gotta love it...
:silly:

[uncommon]

43. Phone numbers have always been available on Facebook?

People have always had to option to show their phone number - putting all of the available ones into a contact list is convenient, I think it's great.

[Goblinmonger]

44. And that helps keep my contacts up to date on my Blackberry

which is synced to Facebook. It even adds what they have as their current profile pic on facebook to be my picture for them on my phone. It's pretty slick.

edited to add: And I already have my settings to show my phone number to friends only and not friends of friends. And I don't friend anyone I wouldn't want to know what I have set to friends only. It's really not that hard people.

[izzybeans]

46. The people listed on my page are people who put their phone number in their

profile. If you use facebook mobile and imported phone numbers in there, then be careful.

[derby378]

49. I used to have an old cell number posted...

...but not anymore. Besides, that phone fell into the lake with me, so I wound up buying another phone anyway.

[pipi_k]

66. Does that mean a rainbow trout is getting crank calls? n/t

[AngryAmish]

50. serious business

[laylah]

54. Thank you...posted your message to

everyone.

[spanone]

55. not mine.

no facebook

[senseandsensibility]

58. k and r

Thanks.

[bigwillq]

60. Not mine

You can choose to list your number or not. I chose not to.

[HarveyDarkey]

62. Don't put it there in the first place

it won't show up. It's that simple.