Facebook users beware!
 

EVERYONE'S MOBILE PHONE NUMBER IS NOW ON FACEBOOK!! NO JOKE... Go to the top right of your screen, click Account then Edit Friends. Go to the left side of your screen and click Phonebook. Everyone's mobile phone numbers are now being published. Please repost to let your friends know this is happening so they can remove their numbers

Just got this from a friend and it's correct, well worth removing your phone number I think. A friend has just had an unsolicited text message from someone who sent a friends request that she didn't accept and he has now got her phone number.

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OMG!

:eek:

So they are!

Are they listed even if you've not put any phone numbers on?

Can you check mine Lindsay please.

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i cant believe people put their number on facebook.If they are your friends they should already have it or pass it on privatly.Not sure what i put for mine it may be a takeaway number or somthing so i hope whoever rings it enjoys their meal:D

i also cant believe facebook allow this to happen it was only a few months ago they reset everyones security settings and left everyones details and accounts fully exposed to anyone who wanted to look at them:rolleyes:

mind you they dont have a good record they point blank refused to help protect children from perverts saying their sites system was ok as it was :rolleyes:

thanx for the head up though it dosnt effect me but i wouldnt have noticed if it did :)

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Was going to say the same myself, I ain't put mine in my profile;)

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Only a small minority ...but don't understand the blurb behind it, Lindsay ?

Notice the ones that are showing their number are all mobile ... except Jaysay, of course, showing his landline .... :D

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It seems it's just users who've put their number/s on their info.

Worth taking off if you don't want to be in the Facebook directory.

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Your's is listed.

Seriously.

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That'll fool um:p:p:D

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Never put me mobile number on owt, cannot understand why anyone would,suppose it takes allsorts though.:rolleyes: good heads up fer those suckers who have.:D

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I think I might take my bank/credit card numbers off, and their pins.

:D

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good idea but dont change them it took a considerable mount of effort getting them;)

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Don't worry.

I'm not as stupid as I look.

I'll still keep my front door-key under my profile picture.

;):D

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You set in your privacy setting who can see what info.
Showing phone numbers is nothing new. My mobile picked up facebook friends phone numbers months ago when i first got the phone.

Most of my personal info like emails and phone number is set to be viewed by me only so you should not be able to see my number. If you can see my number then yes they are doing something wrong.

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Neil please explain why yeh would put yer phone number @ e-mail on facebook, do yeh not know it?:confused:

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email is because its how you log in. I have more than one in because a while ago Rhonda had a problem where her password was screwed up and she could not log in. The password resets are sent as an email but our provider was bining emails from facebook and nothing they could do would let the emails come through. Thats why we both have home and work emails on. Mine are set so only I can see them. Dont know how Rhonda has hers set. Probably so only friends can see it. After all if you only have people you class as friends then whats the problem.

As for mobile number they can reset your password by sending a code to your mobile. They can sent notifications to your mobile and you can use your mobile to update your status.

I dont put my work details in. I know people who have been in trouble for posting work things before

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I just click this, next to your name on the edit friends list

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...eA9v5bgLNObtnw

and listen in to all your phone calls.

:eek::D:eek:

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Dont have a problem wi me mobile never, cos never put it on.:)

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Me neither.

I can't think of a reason why l would.

:confused:

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Even you might blush :p:eek::D

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This is what my settings look like, the blanked out ones are email addresses

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I do.

I've never heard such a nice boy, chatting to his mum.

Puts me to shame.

:D

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Shhhh don't tell them all.

Did you look to see if you could see my phone number and email on facebook?

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The ironic/daftest thing to me is joining the group "I like Accyweb" .. showing on the left of the main page ... shows 'photos, etc, doesn't take you long to work out who is who. :rolleyes:

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No.

As a friend, I can't see that info.

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I haven't pressed I like it, because of that.

Don't particularly want my mug shot, and name on there.

Though being nosey I do click other peoples' faces, and try and work out who they are on here.

:D

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Thats why I have not liked it

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So facebook have changed nothing recently because I have been set like that for months.

Its good though that Lindsay brought this up because to many people dont look at these settings

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True.

I panicked that Facebook had somehow listed my number/s, even though I've never posted them.

It only does if you have them on your info.

Like you say, a timely reminder about security settings on Facebook.

It does let you check what details are seen, by everyone other than friends.

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Did you check my facebook warning on my status yesterday? Here it is again

IMPORTANT. Tomorrow Facebook will change its settings to allow zombies to come into your house while you sleep and eat your brains with a sharpened spoon. To stop this from happening go to Accounts / Home Invasion Settings / Cannibalism / Brains and un-check the "Tasty" box. Please copy and re-post.

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I did.

It made me laugh.

I resisted copy 'n' pasting it, because my friends already think I have a phallus growing out of the top of my skull.

:p:D:p

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To be quite honest cashy I don't even know I mobile number, I never ring it:D

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i rang the number you gave me and i got a woman telling me she had been a naughty girl and needed spanking :eek:

i dont know how much you have to use a number to remember it but it was a pretty expensive call :D

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Just done a check it shows two

Retlaw.

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Put on a funny voice, and call and tell him it's still there.

:D

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:eek: Ooo you are awfull, can't do funny voices, can I ring you instead.:tongueout
On checking facebook its says to remove mobile contact, you need to disable the feature on your mobile.
How did such a feature get on a mobile in the first place.
Retlaw

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Ya but it pays well:D:D

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Read my post above with the picture, you decide what people see about your profile by selecting the correct options. It has nothing to do with your phone

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I have never ever opened facebook or looked into a post or thread whatever so I think I will be safe from prying eyes. My mobile number, which is M478089477746664646372723464444 will surely not be listed then. I don't often carry my mobile phone because the thing is very heavy and the strap digs into my shoulder and the antenna pokes me in the eye.

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I will explain again for those hard or hearing :D

Facebook only knows yours phone number or anything else if you put it in your details.
You then set up your account to display what you want.
Facebook does not magicly find out your number and post it.

You should check you account and see what you are displaying, its up to you what you show to others.

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See you haven't quite catched up with the new mobiles yet Gremlin:D

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Oh I don't know jaysay, my old mobile had a A and B button but my new one doesn't, so if I am not connected I don't get my two pence back. Just another way of getting money out of us pensioners. I believe these new fangled mobiles take photos, videos and play music and must always be used in places like doctors or hospital waiting rooms for telling others who are sat minding their own business that they are sat in a waiting room hoping for another months sick note.
I still practice the black art of sending Morse code to communicate with friends around the world at no cost other than the initial outlay of the radio gear.

Bring back the hand looms and kids up chimneys, horse drawn brewery drays the rag mans trumpet and streets full of people trudging to work every day.

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I take it you're happy to keep this new fangled magic, that is electricity?

Unless your's is a steam powered computing machine?

:rolleyes:

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Yes, I heard about the electricity thing which comes down the wires a few years ago. It is much easier than having to start the old Douglas twin petrol engine in the shed, this is geared to a 24 volt dynamo which in turn charges batteries, these are connected to the 24 volt bulbs, which I used to borrow from the LMS single compartment railway carriages, to light my meager garret.
That was what I had to do when living up Sharneyford in Todmorden.

Back to this faceybook thingy. A friend of mine met an old flame via facebook and has now left her husband for him, there must be some good in it after all.

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Yes, she started a Facebook group, asking if she should leave for pastures new.

We had to vote.

;)

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Apparently it was her that inspired the people powered insurrection, we are currently witnessing in the Arab world.

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What actually makes me smile more than anything is the fact that people actually say I don't know what I'd do without my mobile, I remember the times when if you wanted to make a phone call when away from home you had to search for a red box, that hadn't been vandalised:D

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What would you do all day without your TV and internet?

Thats some of what I use my phone for, not TV much but internet ( I do a lot of modding on here using my phone when I get reports emailed to my phone), email, texts, music, calendar, the clock as I dont even own a watch, alarm clock, the odd game, photos both at home and work, videos of the kids being stupid, sat nav sometimes and even the odd phone call. Probably other things I have forgotton as well.

For me a mobile phone is not just for phone calls

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I was talking about the good old days, when you didn't have a choice Neil, but the world seemed to carry on and didn't come to a standstill, hell if mobile phones were taken of the earth people wouldn't be able to exist, yet its only 15 years or saw when mobiles were unheard of to your ordinary Joe Public

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I'm with you on this one, as I rarely use mine.

Mainly when on holiday, to phone home. Saves messing with bills, or coins.

They are handy for emergencies too. If I remember to take it with me, the next time I'm planning an emergency.

People bang on about the erosion of freedom, but are quiet happy to carry a 24/7 tracking device with them at all times.

If you ever see me anywhere, telling someone I'm sat outside Greggs, asking someone else where they're sat, shoot me.

:D

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I tramped the country driving a tanker and a mobile phone would have mad my job a lot easier. Priority was getting digs, making sure I was booked in. I would find a phone box and discover the handset had been pulled off the wall or the dial was smashed, then off to find another one, hoping I could park without getting booked. Then there was the matter of ringing back to Shell where I worked to tell them I was either empty or the customer couldn't fit the oil in the tanks. The down side was the firm could ring me and give me another job just when I though I was parking up early. I admit that when we did get cab fitted phones, all hands free it was easier. I still have my firts mobile phone which I held on and it is a Motorola with a flip front and a little antenna, the sim card is in a credit card sized plastic card and the whole lot slides into a slot under the phone. It still works but has to be on charge all the time as the battery is US.

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Do landladies of digs not understand morse code ..--..


:D

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Some do I suppose but they are too busy making all the gruel and turning over the sheets to bother.

A old mate of mine, many years older, told me that the company used to send a telegram to the digs to book beds in advance for the drivers. Even the digs didn't all have a landline. I see you know your full stops from your question marks .-.-.-

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Of course-.-.--

:D

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Thats a good enough reason on its own.:D

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:flamethro


Mind, I'm a fast runner, and I do a mean zig-zag.

So you'll need a steady hand.

:D:p:D

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mainly use mine to text people ... but 99% of the time i have mine with me .. simple reason is because you never know when it needed ... especially as i have ICE in mine ... for the uniniatated ... In Case of Emergency ... supposedly ambulance persons or nurses and doctors at Accident and Emergency know about this .. and can ring a contact number .. ie your next of kin ... in case anything happens to you .. and you are not able to tell them who to contact.

For those who dont know about it ... all you do is put ICE and then the contacts name and their phone number in ...

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Yeah I have had ICE in my phone for a couple of years now, told me family aswell. I thought it were a good idea

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You must be into old things, my new fangled phone has an ice app, on the main screen is a big icon saying ice: press for emergency info and contacts. It shows who to call and medical info like nhs number and medication you are on. It shows any medical conditions you have, you could list mingingitus :p :D

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See its because you are soooo old that you have to have a ICE APP to list everything that is wrong with you! :p:p:p

I have also told you that when you do meet me you can see for yourself I deff do not have mingingitus!:tongueout

How was your pampering day for your owd skin anyway?:eek:

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Thats the only reason I have a mobile Jen, texting, otherwise its turned of all the time

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Facebook unveils benefits-cheat bride: Jail for 'single mother' trapped by wedding snaps | Mail Online
I can never understand why people put all and sundry on Facebook, this is just another stupid woman who obviously has no brains

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We did not go as our little one was ill. Went out for lunch instead so we did not have to leave her with Rhonda's parents for as long.

I commented before that the first thing the divorce solicitors say is do not use facebook until after the divorve is completed as so many people use it as evidence what the other party is up to

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Hope she feels better soon.:)

Soooooo you still look scary then?!:eek:

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If you were on facebook (nicely back on thread ;)) you would know :D

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Nah not interested in facebook, this is the only "social" network I am on. Dont have the time and the patience with any other :D

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At least with facebook you can choose who you listen to moaning :rolleyes::D

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Shut it you whinging old sod!!! :eek:

:tongueout:bootyshak:rofl38:

Anyway Facebook (back on thread ;)) seems to be some people's life and I just dont get that.

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Ya tell me about it:D

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Me neither heth :confused::confused::confused:

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They are called sado's :rolleyes::D

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...and they even have their own group on Facebook.

Facebook - Sado's Group

:D

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Whoops.

You might have to be logged in to see them.

:p

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No - it's only people who have chosen to put their mobile numbers on their profile and make that information available to friends (or friends of friends, or everyone). Those people in the list have chosen to make the information available to you - you can also see it on an individual profile by clicking "info" on the left and looking in the contact details that come up at the bottom of that page.

People forget that Facebook is promoted as a social network - the whole point of it is to make it easier for people to remain in contact with each other. That does not gel easily with privacy concerns. You can't have a truly social network unless people can see enough about you to see if they want to communicate. That would be a bit like having an ex-directory number and then wondering why friends that don't have your number never get in touch.

Personally, I think it's a waste of time, but the people I know who really love what it does for them (and the ones who use FB to promote their business) are also the people who have their mobile numbers on display and their information available more widely.