What Does Facebook Want with Your Phone Number?

There are obvious reasons you don't go scribbling your phone number on restroom walls or handing out your digits willy nilly. In theory, only the people you care to talk with should have your number. If that's the case, are you worred about Facebook harvesting your contact information? The social networking site has come under fire for collecting not just your phone number, but also numbers stored in your phone.

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I wouldn't trust Facebook (or any other social networking site) with any of my personal information. That's why I don't use them.

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Yeah, cuz the phone company doesn't publish them in any kind of book either.

buffylinden said:

Yesterday I disenrolled from Facebook. Don't trust them as far as I can throw an elephant. They collect your info & sell it.

Well, it's not as if my information might not be available elsewhere. I don't see the big fear here. I've been on Facebook for years and don't see the digital fallout of my identify or anything else.

Facebook makes even Google seem trustworthy. They change the security setup without informing you. I find it useful to keep in touch with friends but I wouldn't load anything remotely sensitive.

Dwarf said:

I wouldn't trust Facebook (or any other social networking site) with any of my personal information. That's why I don't use them.

Layback Bear said:

Windows 7 forum is all the socializing I need on the web.

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