Clayton McIlrath » Privacy http://thinkclay.com Creative Media Design, Powered by Wordpress Sat, 15 Oct 2011 19:40:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Facebook PhoneBookhttp://thinkclay.com/social-media/facebook-phonebook http://thinkclay.com/social-media/facebook-phonebook#comments Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:06:34 +0000 Clay McIlrath http://thinkclay.com/?p=1359 When I first heard the name “Facebook” a few years back, the brand immediately triggered the thought of a visual phone book. When I discovered that Facebook was something more than just a phonebook, however, I soon forgot that the thought ever even crossed my mind.. until today.

I signed into facebook today to start my projects for the day (I’m a facebook developer, mind you) but before I dive right in, I like to check out the facebook stream and see how my friends are doing. I’m quite used to facebook changing things around on me, but when I saw a status that said Facebook was publishing phone numbers, I thought it had to be fake.

Turns out, I find out from a friend that facebook privacy is once again an issue rather than getting a notice from Facebook. All you have to do is go to Account > Edit Friends > PhoneBook and see it for yourself.

Facebook Phonebook Privacy

Considering the fact that they’ve received flack about privacy since day one, you’d think this would be something that they’d take a little bit more seriously and notify users of. What do you think? Is facebook overstepping and shorting us by lack of notice, or do people not care?

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