Facebook Published Your Phone Number
Your phone number may be accessible through Facebook.
Login to Facebook. Go to the top right of your screen, click Account then click Edit Friends.
Go to the left side of your screen and click Phonebook. Everyone’s phone#’s are now being published. Please re-post to let your friends know this is happening so they can remove their phone #’s by changing their privacy settings= (Privacy Settings – Phone- Customize -Only Me)
This news came to my attention in a message posted by Bonnie S. Calhoun.
15 Comments
Lordy. Good thing I’m listed and don’t have a Facebook account or I might be ticked.
Out of curiosity, though. Why would anyone give Facebook their phone number in the first place?
Old news. Remind me to send you a link to check your privacy settings.
I’ll send you the post where I posted that link.
Here is the link that provides a good tool to check your privacy settings. I posted it May 18, 2010. I guess you got busy according to your comment. LOL Wednesday Wickedness – Aretha and Facebook. Hope it helps.
Thanks for the info. I never posted my phone number on Facebook, so no worries there. But I was surprised by how many of my friends who had. Amazing.
Thanks for the tip. II never post my phone number but checked the overall information. It seems Europe doesn’t have a phonebook… yet! II will keep checking, though…
It surprises me, however, that many people post their phone numbers, employer, way too much info, if they are your friends you know that already or else, you can ask…
Facebook is getting better by the day.
Oh well, wouldn’t post my phone number there if you paid me.
Couldn’t keep all the Mohameds and Ahmeds apart 😉
Thanks for the tip Quilly. :0
I’m with Doug – who in there right mind would list a phone number! 🙂
one of the reasons why i keep well away from facebook
I think most people get caught by this because they post via their phones. When you set it up so you can do that, it automatically takes your number. Didn’t have to worry about this myself, I don’t post via phone and I never filled in the phone number part of my profile any way.
I’ve never told facebook my phone number (my home number, I don’t have a cellphone) so I’m guessing it’s not being posted, but that being said, I change my privacy settings every week or so haha.
Thanks for the warning 🙂
Mine was limited to friends but I appreciated the heads up and changed it to *only me* anyway. Found another issue while I was there. Guess I ought to pop into my FB once in a while!
Thanks for this Quilly! I ran over to check and thankfully I never gave my phone number to Facebook in the first place.
But now I’m wondering why I even have an account there — I never use it.
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