Time for the first of many rants on sionide.net, inspired after finding this rather interesting little gem on Facebook…
and I wish more people knew about it! I don’t know how many times I’ve been invited to those ridiculous groups where some bumbling fool has lost or had their mobile stolen or dropped it down the toilet and so requires everyone’s phone numbers. If you ever want to have a drunken laugh prank calling people at 4am, go on Facebook search for “phone numbers” and narrow the search to Groups only. Displaying 1 - 10 out of over 500 group results for: phone numbers Yes, people actually post their supposedly private phone numbers on publicly available web pages?! Dial 141 followed by a random phone number and tell whoever picks up they’re an idiot for posting their number on Facebook.
Years ago, you’d need to purchase an odd looking gadget to backup the contents of your sim card. These days, phones are smart, they can connect to the Internet and back themselves up! But I appreciate not everyone is going to bother with backing up.
So if everyone used the built-in mobile phonebook feature of Facebook, put their mobile numbers on their profile and restricted that information to Friends Only (assuming, of course, people don’t actually friend randoms) then the world social network would be a much better place.
Haha, holy crap. I never noticed that. But yeah, I do get annoyed with the amount of invites from people who can’t keep ahold of their phone. I usually just message them though.
Ideally they should make phone numbers available only to friends, as a default. Seems silly that anyone on your network could get your phone number.
Ooh, now, that is a useful page. Saves me trawling through individual pages looking for somebody’s number!