Couldn't they just get your mobile number, from one of your friends iPhones? Even if you had a fake name on your profile, I would assume its still fairly straightforward to identify you purely from the network structure.
I've no idea if they are doing this, but I wouldn't put the possibility in moon/willpower territory.
Man, that is annoying. "Don't like it, don't use it" they say. I don't use facebook. I blacklist any requests to their domain ("Like" button etc). As you have pointed out, but I did not previously realize, they surely have my name and number in all of my friends' social graph, because they snarfed it from their iPhones or other mobile device.
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Couldn't they just get your mobile number, from one of your friends iPhones? Even if you had a fake name on your profile, I would assume its still fairly straightforward to identify you purely from the network structure.
I've no idea if they are doing this, but I wouldn't put the possibility in moon/willpower territory.
Man, that is annoying. "Don't like it, don't use it" they say. I don't use facebook. I blacklist any requests to their domain ("Like" button etc). As you have pointed out, but I did not previously realize, they surely have my name and number in all of my friends' social graph, because they snarfed it from their iPhones or other mobile device.