Facebook will soon share users’ phone numbers and addresses with 3rd parties

[Hot Mega]

"That's why I don't eat shrimp..."

It's been a while since we've had an uproar over Facebook's handling of its users personal information, so we suppose the time is ripe.

So cue the online outrage: Facebook announced today in a letter to Congress that the social-media platform is moving forward with plans to give third parties access to user information, such as phone numbers and home addresses.

In a letter to Reps. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Joe Barton (R-Tex.), who both expressed concerns over Facebook's plan to make such data available, company officials reiterated their now-familiar pledge to leave it up to users to decide whether they want their personal contact information to go out to app developers and outside websites. Markey has previously said that "Facebook needs to protect the personal information of its users to ensure that Facebook doesn't become Phonebook."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110301/ts_yblog_thelookout/facebook-will-soon-share-users-phone-numbers-and-addresses-with-3rd-parties

 

[LukeEl]

Finally I get to talk to you Mega, and not just in my dreams!

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

Facebook seems like a very dangerous place to me. I have an account(s) but I rarely post personal, sensitive information on it. That place just seems too vulnerable. I see how powerful it is as a medium, but I am also learly about what I post there.

 

[Member442]

Good thing I don't put anything that matters on there.

 

[~~whimsy~~]

Meh. Look at all the information people fill out just to get a grocery store/gas station super card for discounts. I can only imagine where that information goes. Why would an internet website be any different?

 

[ragincaucasian]

 

[Ike Stain]

They guy talks about all this visionary bullshit, but at the end of the day, all he can think of to do with his site is monetize it in the crassest way possible.

I guess it never occurred to him that he didn't have to be quite such a corporate scumbag about it.

 

[TaylorVixenFan]

i have facebook, but i hardly ever use it. i use it mainly just to talk to my favorite singer chibi.

 

[serpentor]

So basically it's now a phone book with pictures?

 

[Hot Mega]

Finally I get to talk to you Mega, and not just in my dreams!

Keep dreamin'. ol' Mega (this one) isn't on Myface nor Spacebook. Hence the Barkleyism-'..that's why I don't eat shrimp...'

I mean really, who couldn't see this coming??

 

[xfire]

Facespace is going to be it's own undoing. Off to the waybackmachine with it.

 

[TheOrangeCat]

Facebook can suck my cock after a week bear hunting in the bush ... I have an account, but under an alternate persona.

That being said ... FB is soooooooo 2009.

 

[D-rock]

Was there anybody that ever really thought Facebook wouldn't eventually sell out?

 

[TheOrangeCat]

'Lunch. Yum'
'I'm going for a home'
'Aww. Cute baby'

The 400 million people that post crap like this on FB deserve to be hounded 24-7 by cold sales calls.

 

[TaylorVixenFan]

im glad i don't have my address or phone number on there then. i removed them long ago.

 

[magicspore]

Facebook is going to the dogs. It was great when it started , spent a lot of time playing poker till one fine day when all my chips got hacked. You cant even save photographs in the new format, how effin ridiculous is that? Ok i own the physical copy but i cant be arsed to find it , scan it send it online to someone when i can simple copy , upload and send. And now this ...

If im not mistaken facebook owns all our content and can freely distribute whatever it wants ??

 

[magicspore]

'Lunch. Yum'
'I'm going for a home'
'Aww. Cute baby'

The 400 million people that post crap like this on FB deserve to be hounded 24-7 by cold sales calls.

'Cleaning the oven.'
'Gangsta!'

 

[shayd]

Pro-tip: They've already been doing it for almost two years.

 

[Ravenholm]

And people wonder why I don't use Facebook, Twitter or MySpace.

 

[Hot Mega]

Pro-tip: They've already been doing it for almost two years.

I don't know if they do or not. But in what way?