Facebook won’t let you opt-out of its phone number ‘look up’ setting

[Swilly]

The point is that Facebook A. doesn't have the security history to be trusted with numbers being 'friend's only'. B. You have to find out yourself and switch it yourself, its not auto-friend's only. Its Automatically out into the facebook ecosystem for anyone to find.

And the fact you can't even hide it from people searching facebook is just silly. You should be able to opt-out of that because the only reason they supposedly need that number is for 2FA.

[elix]

Fucking hell I'm so glad I never used the Facebook app that was preinstalled on my old phone (before I flashed a debloated rom). I don't think they have my phone number and they're not getting it if I have any choice in the matter.

I only log into my Facebook like once every three years though, and the next time I do will probably be to message everyone with my email address before I nuke it.

[Swilly]

It still shocks me that people will defend Facebook, its beyond a shadow fo a doubt that everything you do on it is logged and catagorized and they design their site to drag out as much drama and other shit to keep you clicking. Youtube and Twitter do the same as well.

Its not healthy for us at all and as great as a majority of the information that has been born form this; its only helped them in their attempts to automate us to death.

[Peachy]

Just because people are arguing against certain statements being made doesn't mean that they're arguing that it's good as platform.

[Swilly]

Except their statements are often made as if its in a vaccum, which its not.

[WuzeyUzi]

People are afraid of change. And it is very hard for people to quit using Facebook.

[1/4 Life]

For future reference, here's a couple examples of what you should be using instead.
Facebook: The diaspora* Project
Instagram: pixelfed
Twitter: https://mastodon.social/about
Whatsapp: https://signal.org/

[HeyItsKyo]

Facebook is the only website I've ever gotten my account banned from, and it was only because I refused to provide my actual real information. I'll never understand how people managed to get so comfortable giving a website like that so much of their personal information.

[Somepotato]

oh cool now companies like verizon who intercept your web requests can sell your information to facebook to tie in off-FB data like cell towers and phonecalls used because you consented to this kind of thing when signing up to their rewards program