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Facebook won’t let you opt out of its phone number ‘look up’ setting
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#14This will make keeping your social media private during recruiting much much harder because rather than trying to search for your name on FB or your email, an interviewer can just search your listed contact number. Names are often not unique but phone numbers are.
This matters because creating a new email account for recruiting is trivial, yet creating a new phone number for recruiting is not. Most phones are not dual sim, and you want to have a phone on you in case the recruiter or future employer calls. Hence the account id rate using a phone number should be much higher and makes it dramatically easier to find somebody.
The nasty part is even if you rename your account to your "first-name middle-name" or an alias, you could be found out via phone number search. So simply renaming your account no longer ensures random recruiters can't just find your profile. Your FB name could be "giant blue monkey" which prevents a regular name search but would still be identifiable via phone number search.
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#15Just delete the phone number. You can use two factor authentication with OTP, SMS part is unnecessary.
Deleting the data in your account settings isn't going to necessarily remove it from Facebook's database. Getting a vanity number that spells your first name or nickname would be a better workaround IMO, and you can set business hours and such to control your potential employer's access to you :P
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#17This will make keeping your social media private during recruiting much much harder because rather than trying to search for your name on FB or your email, an interviewer can just search your listed contact number. Names are often not unique but phone numbers are. This matters because creating a new email account for recruiting is trivial, yet creating a new phone number for recruiting is not. Most phones are not dua…
I think VOIP has great untapped potential for this, having helped many people get vanity numbers with their name embedded. Once the job hunt is over, you can literally reject all calls, and build a caller ID blacklist of spammy companies and recruiters. Plus, numbers are 1/4th to 1/10th the cost of domains these days.
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#18This will make keeping your social media private during recruiting much much harder because rather than trying to search for your name on FB or your email, an interviewer can just search your listed contact number. Names are often not unique but phone numbers are. This matters because creating a new email account for recruiting is trivial, yet creating a new phone number for recruiting is not. Most phones are not dua…
So get off public social networks. Problem solved.
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#19This seems just as bad as the bug they had before, where if you entered your email but not password correctly it would show up your real name.
The potential for abuse by spammers is too high. They not only would know who they're calling, but also all the public info on their Facebook profile and whatever else they can stitch it with.
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#20Glad I never gave them my number.