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So you blame fb, instead of your friends, for your friends handing over your phone number to an advertising company? It might make sense to stop giving your ph
by basch 8y ago
So you blame fb, instead of your friends, for your friends handing over your phone number to an advertising company? It might make sense to stop giving your phone number out to your friends.
At some point, lets say you have 100 friends, and ONE gives out your number. That's it, its out there. Your phone number is either de facto public information, or you cant really give it out to anybody, except maybe banks for verification.
- y4mi 8y agoFacebook doesn't limit itself to phone numbers. They're just a convenient data point to pin everything else they've gathered to your name. And the thing people take offense in isn't the phone number directory... It's everything else that they not only know about, but also sell to unrelated third parties.
- basch 8y agoThird parties like who?
- Nextgrid 8y agoWhen a crazy sociopath manipulates my friends in order to achieve what he wants I’d blame the sociopath and not my friends. If you’re not tech-savvy and don’t know anything about Facebook it’s reasonable to think they will actually keep those contacts private and only use them for what they said they would (aka recommend you people that are in your contacts but you haven’t yet added on FB). Also I don’t have a problem with one friend accidentally giving away my number to one bad guy. I have a problem with a toxic company using that phone number to build a graph of my relationships and my friends’.
- basch 8y agoSo you have a problem with them using the contacts in the literal way they said they would, to build a graph to suggest friends to people. Seems like being mad you got bacon from a bacon salesman, screaming that you were told it would be pork.
- Nextgrid 8y agoIt's one thing to recommend me if I provided my number to Facebook. It's another thing to use my number as a means to link otherwise unrelated people especially if I am not a Facebook user myself. Oh and finally it's another thing to use the number for ads.
- basch 8y agoWhat would providing your own number do? When facebook asks for permission to see your contacts, it says its so it can look through for contacts you have that youre not friends with. Its literal explicit purpose is for building out the social graph. And it tells you that. People just dont realize that they would store a phone number they dont have a profile for yet.