Comments on: Facebook 3.1 Contact Syncing -- Got Bikini Pics?

By: Kristine

Kristine — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:03:47 +0000

FB on Iphone is not uploading pictures from my library... Pls advise

By: murpythadog

murpythadog — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:57:17 +0000

I have a similar problem. Anybody not on FaceBook all of the same profile pic of some dude in a yellow corvette. Not sure who it is.

By: dmackdaddy

dmackdaddy — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:36:40 +0000

You guys didnt read the small print:

[Image above is a mockup based on the story -- no real coworkers were embarrassed in the making of this post]

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:29:43 +0000

Dude that chicks hot, why is he complaining that happend? I can tell she has a great butt.

By: Janey

Janey — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:03:36 +0000

I disabled photo sync because Facebook is (unfortunately) becoming the new Myspace with idiots setting their profile pics to stupid internet meme pics or flowers or some other dumb trash.

By: dmackdaddy

dmackdaddy — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:47:33 +0000

@SpiceRak2: I didnt miss it and I actually wanted it but I thought they would be smart enough to only sync my friends not every email in my Outlook 2010 Suggested Contacts list! The trick is to clean out the suggested now and then.

By: xbigx daddy

xbigx daddy — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:31:45 +0000

I don't see the problem.

By: Kamal

Kamal — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 06:49:31 +0000

Nice pics

By: SpiceRak2

SpiceRak2 — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 05:00:58 +0000

@Mike: If you are getting a picture only in the upper right corner when people call, it means that the picture saved to the contact is not at a high enough resolution for the full sized screen. Try changing the image and see if that makes a difference.

As for the FaceBook contact exchange, even without the glitches, this feature would be a personal nightmare for me. I have almost 400 contacts on my iPhone but over 800 contacts in FaceBook, many of which I do not know personally. I have contacts on FB for different reasons. Every "friend" in FB that I do not know is in a custom group that has zero access to my actual profile. I could not afford to have all those people blended into my iPhone contacts.

I saw the option to sync contacts in the FaceBook application and knew better. How did people miss that?

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:11:02 +0000

how do u get the picture to take up the whole screen ;llike a regular contact? when ppl call me i only get their pic on the upper right

By: MiPhoneBook

MiPhoneBook — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:58:39 +0000

Mi Phone Book is planning to launch a sick contact networking app in March. Mi Phone Book is the revolutionary new way to manage your contacts. Mi Phone Book makes it easy to store and keep your contact's key information always up-to-date. How will this happen? Well lets say I have some friends I know working on this app and truly is going to blow your mind. Follow them on twitter - twitter.com/MiPhoneBook

By: dmackdaddy

dmackdaddy — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:31:33 +0000

@Simon, you might be right but ppl dont know what they are fully getting into, so I hope that by exposing this ppl are aware of what they are exposed to. I'm not even 100% sure you can turn it off at all with the comment I made earlier about making your profile unsearchable.

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:55:42 +0000

I can confirm that this happened to me. I synced my address book through the app and suddenly started getting pictures in my Mobile Me address book of people I am not FaceBook friends with, and have no intention of being friends with (work people). I've also experienced the incorrect matching problem that is claimed to have been fixed in 3.1.2 (not tried the fix yet though).

I don't really see this as a problem. If people have their profiles set to public, then you'd sort of expect them to be searchable. Why does an app doing the searching suddenly make it outrageous? It's not any different to me going to the facebook site and typing in all my contacts names and doing it manually. It's not as if it doesn't warn you before hand.

By: Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:22:14 +0000

@caa, it would be far less responsible, given the new privacy settings on Facebook and the increasing ability to sync with mobile devices like Palm Synergy, MotoBlur, and now the iPhone Facebook app, not to warn people that their Facebook pictures can and will move further than they may realize.

The problem with this story is that it's not actually shocking -- it's completely predictable given the new models for internet contact handling.

So, yeah, we did check into it before posting, and again, hope our readers are better informed now than they may have been previously.

By: ZeroShift

ZeroShift — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:17:01 +0000

No Bikini pics, but I do get some contacts pictures in the upperleft when they call me. I had seen it in all the iPhone commercials but never knew how. Anyone know?

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:51:15 +0000

I'd hit it.

By: caa

caa — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:40:04 +0000

This post is irresponsible. TIPB should only report this if either (1) they can reproduce it, or (2) they can link to a forum thread showing it is widespread.

By: dmackdaddy

dmackdaddy — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:12:42 +0000

BTW, 3.1.2 did NOT fix this. Another flaw is that you might deny having a FB acct but now that I have your FB profile pic and URL in my contacts, you cannot DENY me that you have one! So I want to be your FRIEND!!!

By: Tommy

Tommy — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:56:57 +0000

My push is pissing me off I get random people's facebook push to my phone is it because this phone is jailbroken?

By: icebike

icebike — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:37:15 +0000

@Jason:

So in short, the answer is just "grow the hell up", which is by far the best advice.

Perhaps realizing that Facebook has decided its none of your business what they do with your stuff, and just check yourself out of the meat market altogether makes more sense.

By: dmackdaddy

dmackdaddy — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:32:14 +0000

I think the fix is to make sure your profile is not search-able to the outside world. Its a setting in your privacy settings. The worse part is you can get ppl's profile pics if you just think about it a bit and then go fetch. I'm sure it's a feature but I think its a flaw!

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:15:27 +0000

There's a simple correction for this on your end: turn off photo syncing.

True, it doesn't help if yours is the embarrassing photo that's being synced to the phones of random acquaintances, but perhaps in the meantime, you should make sure your Facebook profile pic is beyond reproach (think school marm or old-timey priest, just to be safe).

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:49:46 +0000

There should be a security option in Facebook that asks individual users if they want their info shared via this app just like there is a warning about personal information being used when using one of the apps within Facebook.

By: Snw013

Snw013 — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:48:47 +0000

This update is a joke. Bring back Joe! I have people in my contacts who don't match up at all in Facebook. For example I have a friend called Nicole B, well the facebook profile shows someone with a European name I can not pronounce. And after deleting it several times it still shows the wrong profile. Besides the syncing problems it crashes constantly and doesn't let me update mobile photos anymore. FIX THE PROBLEMS!!!

By: Rick Maxwell

Rick Maxwell — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:43:55 +0000

hey...how many times a day are all of you opening the app store to see if there is a new update? i do it about 15 times a f'n hour. fml.

By: The Reptile

The Reptile — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:39:50 +0000

Tell me again what's wrong with getting pictures of hot women in bikinis synced to your iPhone free?

By: ahmed

ahmed — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:36:21 +0000

beside that one of my friends profile who im sure about his name and email (he is like my bff) now has a profile picture of a stranger and when i press the lnk in the contact it takes me to the owner of the photo some one with a weird name whom im not even friends with

so yah weird

By: Rajiv

Rajiv — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:34:00 +0000

I miss Joe Hewitt.

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:33:39 +0000

It is probably related to Facebook's new security settings. If you know about it and then decide to find your way around to the Security Settings page and then find your way to the photos section and change the permissions to only show to your friends, then I assume you are 'safe'. But if your privacy settings for Settings:Privacy Settings:Profile Information:Photos Albums --> Edit Settings Profile Photos --> Everyone Then the Facebook App will share your photos

By: Cobra302

Cobra302 — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:31:23 +0000

there is a new update 3.1.2 hopefully some of this crap is fixed

By: sarbour

sarbour — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:28:09 +0000

It's the "worlds are colliding" theme...

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:24:41 +0000

dang... I was 1st when I started typing

By: Chris Edwards

Chris Edwards — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:24:08 +0000

After saying that my Facebook push notification wasn't working and then the next day it was working perfectly.

I have a problem with contacts who are under their correct name on my phone and then on facebook they are under their nick name and the contacts arent syncing.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:23:41 +0000

at least this dude's co-worker is hott!!

1st

By: Rick Maxwell

Rick Maxwell — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:23:34 +0000

it is truly unbelievable how bad facebook messed this update up and whats even more so unbelievable is how they are taking their sweet time getting it resolved...

By: duvi

duvi — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:21:34 +0000

Wow... how ridiculous is that. The devs really messed up this time.