If you're my Facebook friend I (may) now have your phone number

[drwex]

Log in to FB.
Go to the top right of the screen, click Account, then click Edit Friends.
Go to the left of the screen and click Phonebook.

Fascinating. I suspect many of those are phone numbers people put in themselves, but some are supposedly numbers that were grabbed by various Facebook apps on smart phones, probably without their users' actual knowledge. Which app I will now be deleting from my Droid. Sigh.

It's not clear to me whether any of those are numbers that an FB app grabbed from my (or someone else's) phone contact list. So even if I don't run an FB app on my smartphone it's possible you've added my phone numbers to FB by running the app on your smart phone with me as a listed contact. That's annoying, but I see no way to deal with it.

My numbers are all listed in phone books and findable by online searches; I have no idea if this process respects any sort of "unlisted number" you might have with your phone provider.

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yeah, I figured that out

[drwex]

At least I can't find out how to delete it. I can log out of it, which appears to deny it any link to my FB account.

Horse, barn and all that.

Re: yeah, I figured that out

[skreeky]

This sounds like a valid but entirely different problem.

Re: yeah, I figured that out

[srakkt.livejournal.com]

Yeah, i think it's just that none of the 'default' apps on the Droid can be deleted. Not specifically a Facebook problem, and not really a big problem in the final analysis unless you need the space.