Facebook privacy fuckup reveals who has your number in their phone

You know I've been wondering about Facebook saying they have 500 million + users but I wonder if they count the deactivated. Which is a fancy word for suspend.

I went to delete my account the other day just because there is so much crap and it's time wasting and I go searching for delete but couldn't find a link! I then came across the deactivate which I had heard about before and went with that but they still keep all my data and it's ready for me just by logging in again.

To delete I had to Google and find an actual link in a forum on how to fully delete my account. And after I found the link you are taken to this page that asks you to confirm and then you have to wait two weeks (I guess to let people go back after Facebook withdrawal.) I guess what I'm getting at is: Facebook makes it easy to deactivate with a false sense to their users that it's sort of being 'deleted.' Yet they are keeping everything, even messages, from your account. I wonder if they still count these accounts in their user count?

I can confirm that the "security check" thing is related to having a fake name, or perhaps an empty profile. Both of those apply to my primary account and I'm prompted to enter a phone number every time I log in.

It doesn't seem to be required, I've always just dismissed those "security" prompts by clicking the FB logo in the top left, which forwards me to the homepage just fine.

The chances of facebook getting my mobile number are about the same as my chances of flying to the moon by willpower alone.

I am wondering if someone is prescient enough to write a " Facebook is dead " essay.

After a group perfects Gentry's work[1].. someone will gear up a homomorphic scheme combined with a generative personal cloud[2].

The " personal " in PC was most important when C stood for computer. Next, it will be most important when C stands for cloud.

[1] - http://crypto.stanford.edu/craig/

[2] - http://futureoftheinternet.org

At first, it didn't recommend anything, but after I made yet another account and added that as friend it recommended 50+ people I had no relationship to, AND one friend that I know of. There's nothing linking me to that person except the phone number I used, so it seems to work somewhat, however, I know for sure there are at least 50 people with my phone number on facebook, why didn't it recommend any of those other people?

I think I've found another troublesome method that Facebook is using to suggest new friends.

A few years ago, I created a Google profile with a vanity URL [1] and a Facebook account with the same Gmail address. I never linked those two accounts, used third-party apps or imported contacts into Facebook. I recently created a Google+ profile and publicly circled some users when I suddenly noticed that those circled users started showing up in my Facebook account as "suggested friends". Those users don't follow me on Google+, aren't linked to any of my Facebook friends and they don't know my Gmail address.

I can't think of any other method used by Facebook to recommend those friends, except by crawling my Google+ circles. It's as easy as extracting my Google+ username from my Gmail address and scanning my circles at profiles.google.com/username.

I can't reproduce this with different accounts as vanity URLs aren't available for new Google accounts.

Could anyone with confirm this with their own Google profiles?

Do you think Facebook should be authorized to "scrap" contacts from other social networks, to extend build their own social graph about their users, without possible opt-out and no disclosure?

[1] http://www.labnol.org/internet/vanity-url-for-google-profile...