Mobile Privacy on Facebook
Hey girls,
Did you know strangers, telemarketers and web savvy crooks can get information about you simply from your phone number? Spooky, right? For example, this site allows people to pay to obtain information about you via your phone number. Sickening. Personally, it irks me which is why I keep my personal social media privacy levels high and never add my phone number.
I was recently browsing my friends on Facebook and clicked on the Edit Friends button. I discovered the Contacts button on the left-navigation bar. Low and behold, my Facebook friends who have their phone numbers listed in their Facebook profile are openly disclosing their numbers to me and many other people, depending on their Facebook privacy settings.
To ensure your phone number is not visual to anyone on Facebook or if you want just your Facebook Friends to see it, I suggest going to your Facebook privacy settings and click on Customize Settings. This will allow you to customize who sees what. For example, who sees your photos versus who sees your religious and political views, etc.
I hope you find this helpful!
Posted on July 18, 2011, in Facebook, Mobile, Privacy and tagged facebook, how-to, mobile, social media. Bookmark the permalink. 7 Comments.
I have a fear of Facebook – mostly because I don’t really know what I’m doing on it to begin with! Will go and check my settings – someone told me recently to change the security to Https – so no one can hack you when you are browsing…
Thanks for this important info
Glad to help. Thanks for stopping by, Marla!
wow, what great info Allison! I love what you have to say!
Thanks Susan!
Eeeks – going to change my settings now. Thanks for the heads up!
Glad to help, Kristen. Let me know if you have any other questions!