A lot of my Facebook friends keep re-posting this.
Apparently people are outraged that their phone number is available to their Facebook friends.
Why is everyone so concerned?
The message:
PHONE NUMBER IS NOW ON FACEBOOK! Go to the top right of your screen,
click Account then Edit Friends. Go to the left side of yourscreen 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 by changing their privacy settings. (Pr…ivacy
Settings- Phone – Customize – Only Me.)
What, are you worried that one of your friends might *gasp* call you?
Yes, if you put your phone number on your Facebook profile, your phone number is on Facebook. Guess what? Your name and picture is on Facebook, too. And if you put in your schools, or hometown, that’s there too.
This is really much ado about nothing, especially considering that if you have your privacy settings set correctly, only your friends can see your phone number.
But even if you have your Facebook profile set to “world readable,” again, I have to ask: Why do you care?
If you’re still worried, I have some other news that might shock you into tomorrow. (You’re gonna want to sit down for this one.) Your phone number is also published in a publicly available directory, right next to your name and address – it’s called the phone book.