9. Your Phone Number
It is safer not to put your phone number anywhere on Facebook, whether in your profile or in posts. A few years ago, the Huffington Post published an article describing developer Tom Scott’s app “Evil,” which searches Facebook groups for friends’ phone numbers and then displays them publically. “Evil” is just one example of how your phone number can be obtained to then be either scraped, used in a public phone directory or used by marketers. You should thus beware of “I lost my phone! Please send me your numbers!” posts.
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