Facebook Phonebook - an unkown feature?
Thursday, June 19th, 2008Appearently this feature has been around for ages, nevertheless I only discovered it today.
It’s called Facebook Phonebook, is accessible both on the web and on the mobile and lists all your friends which have indicated one or more phonenumbers on their profile.
Now the phonenumber functionality of course, has been there since ever, both on facebook and on xing. But I wasn’t aware that you could so easily have an overview over all your friends phonenumbers.
Now I certainly don’t have all these numbers on my cellphone. So it could be really useful to have all these numbers here. A lot of time you write people messages back and forth, when it would be so much more efficient to just give them a call and discuss things or make decisions quickly (like finding a time for a meeting).
What is still not there is the export functionality. Facebook joined the Dataportability Group, but still nothing has changed. Why can’t I export MY data to my cellphone? My friends are sharing this information with me, because they want me to have it! I can export it manually, so why shouldn’t a software be able to do that for me? It would not decrease user privacy by an inch.
More on the matter here: Flavio Rump on Scoble, and the video interview
