Have you looked at your Facebook phonebook lately? Is it larger than you remember? Are your friends listed with their phone numbers? How about your attorney, your CPA your family members?
To be honest, when I first saw the concern listed on my friend's facebook account about phone numbers being published I thought it was just someone being oversensitive and stupid. Well, I was wrong. When I took a peak under my account>phonebook, I saw that not only had my contacts who are also on facebook been uploaded with their phone numbers (and who knows what else) but also had people in my contacts who are NOT on Facebook. Most of the people who aren't already involved on FB aren't involved on purpose. I was quite upset to discover that I had just unintentionally involved them... all of them. I searched for hours on how to delete those inadvertently uploaded contacts from Facebook completely.... there is no way to do it. Facebook allows you to think you can achieve this but you can't. Even if you jump through their hoops and "remove contacts" it doesn't work. A screen loads to tell you that FB is deleting your contacts and it could take a while. As others have said, you can wait as long as you want and it will never actually happen. I have contacted Facebook about it in several ways but received no response.
Something needs to change. Facebook needs to make people aware that when they sync Facebook with their iPhone contacts that they will actually upload your entire contact list. I'm not saying that according to their "Terms and Conditions" they don't have the right.... they do unfortunately..... but the way it was done seems very, very unethical.
My hope in creating this blog is three-fold: 1) I hope to get enough popularity to be able to do something about this, 2) To get my contacts off of Facebook for good and 3) To educate others so the same tragedy does not befall them also. So please.... subscribe to this blog, share it with your friends, post it on Facebook, Tweet it, e-mail it, do anything you can to spread the word and maybe we can eventually be treated fairly in this and all privacy issues by Facebook.
- TamTam
By the way, if you have not read the Facebook Terms and Conditions, which could be likened to that of Crime and Punishment, you should... it is frightening what they can and will do with the information that YOU provide to them. You should also check out their Privacy Policy while your at it.
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