My friend Andrew Cafourek picked up a pretty cool feature within the Facebook mobile application: a phonebook. I’m not quite sure how long the phonebook has been available but it is pretty darn useful. Remember the good ol’ days when we used to converse with each other rather than twitter each other? Now you can call up your friends thanks to the easily accessible Facebook phonebook!
Don’t be surprised if you get a phone call me sometime soon. This concept of speaking with people verbally is a fascinating one! Given that this is on the mobile application, I’m assuming it is easily accesible from your phone. Forget adding all of your contacts to your phone, just add them to Facebook! Actually, that would be ok if Facebook enabled you to export your contacts but unfortunately they don’t. I’m not quite sure why they are so concerned about export functionality considering LinkedIn enables you to.
Will you be using the phonebook application?
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"I’m not quite sure how long the phonebook has been available" – ages.
But I agree, it is pretty darn useful, and more people should know about it. If everyone actually bothered to add their phone numbers to their profiles, then we would forever be rid of those "I lost my phone while out last night.
Can I have your numbers plz?" groups.
Comment by Dominick — December 11, 2007 @ 2:14 pm
“I’m not quite sure how long the phonebook has been available” – ages.
But I agree, it is pretty darn useful, and more people should know about it. If everyone actually bothered to add their phone numbers to their profiles, then we would forever be rid of those “I lost my phone while out last night.
Can I have your numbers plz?” groups.
Comment by Dominick — December 11, 2007 @ 5:14 pm
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Pingback by andrew c. » The Twitter Tuesday Tidal Wave — December 11, 2007 @ 10:16 pm
Mmm…it's really nice, but i'm not sure i'll use it. u know, got all my friends in my cell phone, so..;)
but it's really looks good and it's great!
Comment by Avi — December 12, 2007 @ 4:08 am
Mmm…it’s really nice, but i’m not sure i’ll use it. u know, got all my friends in my cell phone, so..;)
but it’s really looks good and it’s great!
Comment by Avi — December 12, 2007 @ 7:08 am
how do I get to it though?
after i logged on, then what?
Comment by Kristy — June 12, 2008 @ 10:57 pm
Okay, so why is there no screen-name book and address book and email book? I still have to go to each friends' profile INDIVIDUALLY and click on Info. This is a sucky system.
Comment by pmfreebern — October 23, 2008 @ 6:16 am
how do i get to the phonebook? i cant find it anywhere
Comment by savannah — July 20, 2009 @ 3:02 pm
this new face book suck cant find the facebook phone book at all
Comment by donald haberstich — February 16, 2010 @ 6:51 pm
A friend of mine changed her cell number and it said its been updated on my phonebook. I clicked on it, and voila, there are all my friends' numbers. But since then her page (obviously) has moved and I cannot find the phonebook anywhere. Where on earth has FB put it?!?
Comment by Tania — March 29, 2010 @ 10:29 pm
I'm trying to get the contacts OFF my FB account. I didn't want them there in the first place. Everyone should know by now that any information placed on the internet is never completely safe. Third party apps always ask for permission to access all your data. Don't give that permission—you can't use the app. So, we're relying on the integrity of the app developers to use all of the information they harvest in ethical ways. Riiiiight. Won't happen. I want the phonebook contacts gone—but the delete option doesn't work. FaceBook obviously wants you to *think* you can delete these contacts, but go ahead and try. You cannot.
Comment by Deb — July 15, 2010 @ 9:08 am