In order to use Facebook from Preview and other apps, I need to login to Facebook. But then it says when I do that all Facebook friends will be imported into my Contacts, which I do not want. But I DO want to be able to sync Contacts through iCloud to my other devices. So how do I enable Facebook, not let it download friends to my Contacts, but keep other Facebook iCloud syncs?
iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.1)
ACQ88 wrote:
I agree, I don't want to clog up my contacts with "aquaintances", my posts are for friends only so why do they automatically throw those "acquaintances" in my contact list on my iPhone, desktop & iPad? Apple get off the FB kick
No one, not even Apple, is requiring you to link Facebook to your contacts. It is a feature that you can use or not, as you please.
And, Apple isn't reading here. If you'd like to leave them a suggestion, use the feedback page:
I agree, I don't want to clog up my contacts with "aquaintances", my posts are for friends only so why do they automatically throw those "acquaintances" in my contact list on my iPhone, desktop & iPad? Apple get off the FB kick
On your Mac you have only one option in "System Preferences > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Facebook", and that would be to turn off Facebook's contacts sync.
On your iOS device you have a few more options. In Settings > iCloud you can choose between "Calendar, Contacts and Facbooks log in info for other apps"
OK, if I go where you said and enter my Facebook info, I get this message: "Signing into Facebook will: Download your Facebook friends to the Contadcts app...Allow you to post status update etc to Facebook...Enable apps to work with your Facebook account. In System Prefs you can disable Contacts syncing and disallow any app from accessing your Facebook account."
So it sounds like I only have two choices: To have all my Facebook friends in my Contacts (which I don't want; what a mess to scroll past them all on my phone) or to disable Contacts syncing, which will not allow all my contacts to stay synced between devices, right?
Yes, for the moment this seems the only choices - in other words Facebook or no Facebook
On your iOS device you have a few more options. In Settings > iCloud you can choose between "Calendar, Contacts and Facbooks log in info for other apps"
I don't see any such setting in iOS 6.1.
I hate Facebook. Unfortunately I am a web developer and my customers need/want Facebook presence so I have to administer their pages. And to do that you need an account. It is ugly, poorly laid out, forces you to do stupid stuff like this, and dumps the lowest-class adds imaginable: not to mention that little idiot Mark Zuckerburg's posts. Now I have to go through my contacts and get rid of them all. No more Facebook in the iPhone! I should have known they'd do something like that.
100% agree. Really short-sighted Facebook support implementation.
I don't want Facebook friends synced to Contacts.
