Facebook Phone Freakout

Note to Facebookers: that screaming-capital-letters phone number exposure status that is making the rounds is completely false.

Bogus Phone Warnings Go Viral on Facebook

Anyone's phone number visible on your contacts list is set to be visible to you by that person on FB or was brought into the list because at some point you synced your cellphone to FB. Only you can see any numbers that are there from a phone sync. I'm all over Facebook as much as anyone about privacy stuff, but they have not exposed anything here.

Speaking of privacy... on Wednesday Jeff was IMing me from work, and a message we'd never seen preceded each message he sent. It said that we should be aware that company Policy Admins were monitoring our communication. The more annoyed I became with the obtrusive and repetitive add-on message, the more I wanted to send him a racy photo, just to make a point. When I finally commented how obnoxious it was, it stopped.

So creepy.

If anyone were doing anything they shouldn't on IM at work, they certainly wouldn't do it with these warning messages popping up every two seconds. Be covert, policy admins. Enjoy the naked photos. Fire the employee later. No one can sue you, because they are all aware that employee communications can be monitored anytime.

Not that the company is concerned with pornographic pictures. I'm sure they're worried about corporate espionage or something. I just tend to jump to the naked pictures scenario. That probably says a lot. :D