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The more important question is, what are Apple and Google doing allowing apps write access to a user's address book?? I can't believe anyone at Facebook was dumb enough to think this was a good idea. But at the same time, I can't believe some "rogue engineer" did this by accident. I'm curious to see what Facebook says about it.
Now I'm glad it's broken!
I just deleted the Facebook app from my iPhone. I have no idea if it altered any of my contacts, but this certainly does scare me enough to warrant deletion.
I wish I could do that. I wonder if Facebook paid HTC a lot of money to make the Facebook app un-uninstallable.
Does anyone know if there is some kind of possibility to copy facebook contacts to my phone? I'm using Android+Facbook sync. Phone is rooted... I have at least 100 people who are facebook contacts and the ones I don't want to loose, but I'm not even able to copy paste their number not to mention copying them to phone/sim card... I know facebook doesn't want you to do it, but there has to be a way....
The more important question is, what are Apple and Google doing allowing apps write access to a user's address book?? I can't believe anyone at Facebook was dumb enough to think this was a good idea. But at the same time, I can't believe some "rogue engineer" did this by accident. I'm curious to see what Facebook says about it.
Android has a feature where you can indicate that contacts from disparate services are actually the same person. For example, I have my friend Chris in my Android directory, my Gmail directory, on Facebook and on Twitter. Within my contact list, I am able to specify that these are actually all the same person. They're still separate contacts from each service though, they're just grouped together in my phone's direct…
I think someone needs to confirm exactly what's happening here.
An older German lady I know told me many times growing up that you should not $h|t where you eat. In other words, it pays to keep some things separate from other things.
If you value someone's contact information, keep track of it separately. And have a backup.
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Facebook will fix this embarrassing cock-up as if it had never happened - as always. I find your lack of faith disturbing.
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1998-12-02/