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some kind of snark fairy (shyfoxling) wrote,
@ 2010-06-29 23:49:00

Entry tags:

grr, things that are not okay, wtf

OMG WHAT
Your phone number may have been made public (to some degree) on Facebook without your knowledge or consent (possibly related to friends searching for you with a certain app - if they had your number, it got attched to your profile, kind of thing; it "imported" from them without them intending to do so, by the sound of it). If you have a look at http://www.facebook.com/friends/?filter=pfp you can see phone numbers of certain of your friends - who may or may not have wanted you to know them! See http://www.facebook.com/contact_importer/remove_uploads.php to "unimport" anything that might have been harvested from you. See also the disclaimer on the phonebook page; you need to disable it on the phone too (have no idea how to do this since I don't have one).

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	snapesgirl 2010-06-30 05:14 pm UTC (link)
	if a person goes to their profile and selects privacy settings, then custom options, they can opt out of having their phone number on view. that place is becoming a nightmare with all the crap members have to opt out of. It's beginning to feel like I'm back at el-jay with me going to secure my info each time I log on to visit with the family (Reply to this) (Thread)

	shyfoxling 2010-06-30 07:08 pm UTC (link)
	Hence "public to some degree" - I assumed other privacy settings would apply, but this phonebook and this action of it apparently simply silently appeared, without any notification that if you'd had a phone # attached to it ever that people who you might not have wanted to know it might now simply be able to see it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	snapesgirl 2010-07-01 12:28 am UTC (link)
	They sent out the "new changes are coming" notice on their personal facebook page two months ago and figured this was enough notice. The ambiguity of their new changes announcement made me paranoid enough to make sure of my settings as soon as I saw their announcement (Reply to this) (Parent)