Facebook API Bug Deletes Contact Info On Phones

An anonymous reader writes "If you thought that Facebook's recent unannounced change of its users' email address tied with their account to Facebook ones was bad, you'll be livid if you check your mobile phone contacts and discover that the change has deleted the email addresses of many of your friends. According to Facebook, the glitch was due to a bug in its application-programming interface, and causes the last added email address to be pulled and added to the user's phone Contacts. The company says they are working hard at fixing the problem, but in the meantime, a lot of users have effectively lost some of the information stored on their devices."

Re:Bug?

[zlives]

+1

Demand a refund.

[vlm]

I think they should demand a refund of their subscription fee.

Re:Hmmmmm...

[Anonymous Coward]

I know there's some reason people continue to use Facebook. I just have a hard time imagining what it is.

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Re:Yea right a 'glitch'

[Schmorgluck]

No, I really think it's a glitch, because it's totally incoherent with their business model: Facebook deleting personal data? That would be new!

With apologies to Arthur C Clarke ...

[140Mandak262Jamuna]

... sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.