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> Just delete the phone number. I'd be surprised if Facebook ever deletes anything like this voluntarily. Most likely "deleting the number" just means hiding it and using it only of ad targeting and more subtle forms of profile matching.
They do in GDPR jurisdictions or they’re fucked.
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> Doesn't Google Voice solve this problem? Or perhaps there are restrictions I don't know about. Only sort of. I wouldn't be surprised if Facebook rejects Google Voices numbers and will only accept a real-live carrier numbers. It seems pretty easy to do, given how often my GV is rejected by sleezy services I'd like to give a throwaway (e.g. peoplesearch opt-outs). However, I'm not going to personally test this theory…
Even if FB was not allowing Google Voice, you could give FB the real number and give throwaway GB numbers to recruiters. That would solve the issue voiced by OP
If it never occurred to you that this could happen, you would not take steps to prevent it.
This 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…
There are also a non negligible number of people using an alias on facebook because they have good reason. Apparently when a woman uses a pseudonym on facebook, it is not unlikely that it is because of a nasty/stalkerish ex that she would rather get away from. I am actually in favor of a transparent society (a la david brin) , but we have to grown up a lot and handle such cases before the advantages that come with it…
Someone has registered a Facebook account using my email address (apparently they do no verification at all) and I can't stop the spam ....
This 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…
A slightly off-topic question - how the hell do you contact Facebook if you don't have a Facebook account? Someone has registered a Facebook account using my email address (apparently they do no verification at all) and I can't stop the spam ....
Glad I never gave them my number.
Don't worry someone in your circle of friends already handed it over.
Then after a while the nag started popping up with my phone number already filled out.
Really fucking creepy and not okay.
I refused the 2FA nag on Facebook because I didn’t want them to have my phone number Then after a while the nag started popping up with my phone number already filled out. Really fucking creepy and not okay.
This 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…
You can set it to be searchable by friends only, which should avoid recruiters being able to do this, unless they are adding themselves as friends first.
By the way: I haven't actually used facebook since 2012...