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Facebookers beware – the social network giant wants your mobile phone number and personal address.

Why your mobile number? Facebook claims that having a users cell phone number can help its developers create better programs, games, and social widgets – all of which will make a users Facebook experience that much better.

Some examples of how providing cell phone number and personal address could be useful includes a travel app that will text message a user when their flight has been delayed, or sending an item you bought online to the address you’ve provided on Facebook.

Facebook is moving towards making their user’s lives more convenient, but the announcement of requesting users cell phone number and personal address has been causing great controversy. Many critics have claimed Facebook is not taking into consideration of its user’s privacy, however, they do have settings that allow users to block their personal information.