Facebook, why are you phoning me?

Do you need your phone number/s displayed to the world at large? If you run a business that relies on people phoning in then, yes, you certainly do.

Maybe your personal friends and family don’t feel the same about their phone numbers. We don’t know. We haven’t asked them.

Just like Facebook hasn’t asked us if we want our phonebooks to be public.

How to disable your Facebook Phonebook

Go to your Account – Choose Edit Friends

On the left, see the Phonebook

When you click on Phonebook , you get this message To learn more about Phonebook or to delete any contacts imported from your phone, click here.

OK – let’s click

Another page! Facebook Phonebook displays contacts you have imported from your phone, as well as your Facebook friends. If you would like to remove your mobile contacts from Facebook, you need to disable the feature on your mobile phone and this page.

We click once more. After this journey we arrive at the message

Remove Imported Contacts

When you import contacts into Facebook from your email, mobile, or instant messaging service, we may use this information to create friend suggestions for you and your friends. We also display these contacts in your Facebook Phonebook.

If you choose to remove your imported contacts, they will no longer appear in your Phonebook and friend suggestions may be less relevant to you and your friends.

To remove all imported contacts, please make sure to disable the Facebook synchronization feature on your phone first, if you have ever enabled it. Then, click the ‘Remove’ button below.

Now I don’t know about you, but I don’t use my phone for Facebook and consequently don’t have the ‘Facebook synchronization feature’.

For all my friends and contacts who use their phone to upload photos or send text, it looks as though they don’t have a choice.

I’m looking for a way to work around this. You know how to? Let me know. Please.