The number for Facebook in India is 9232232665. That may sound a bit complex but it’s actually very easy to remember because if you break it down, the last eight digits of the phone number would spell as ‘facebook’.
Therefore, you can simply dial 92facebook using the standard key pad of any mobile phone or landline phone and your message will reach Zuckerberg’s server.
What does this phone number spell?
When you are applying for a new phone number, the telecom company will almost always provide you with a series of numbers from where you can pick one of your choice.
Most people prefer to go with numerical patterns – like 3366 (double digits), 4567 (sequences), 2468 (even or odd combinations) – but there’s another option, you can try picking up numbers that spell something memorable like your name or a city or even a popular brand.
If you need help in finding memorable words, phrases or even abbreviations that may be hidden inside those complex phone numbers, some good online tools that can help you in the quest are available at phonetic.com, mbhs.edu, phonespell.com and dialABC.com.
They all work the same. You enter a phone number and the service will try to list all the different words and phrases that your phone number spells like. Some of the suggestions are obviously meaningless, but there might be a couple or so that are real or semi-real phrases.
You may use these services while short-listing a new phone number or even when you are looking for a more memorable representation of your existing phone number.
From 4004563 to GOOG-JOE
For instance, one on my landline numbers is 4004563 but a more memorable representation of the same number, that I only found through one of these services, is GOOG-Joe – most people know about GOOG-411 so GOOG-Joe is not that bad a choice.
Some of you may not feel very comfortable sharing your personal phone number on an external website but I think if you remove the area code and your country code, it should be fine. Or maybe you can split the telephone number into two parts before looking for words that your phone number spells like.
Related: Spell Your Name on the Phone
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Reader Comments
Good idea!
Written by Kavya on 10.06.09
That is a step towards choice telephone number which requires a good amount. Not for common man – I think so.
Written by HOBO(nickname) on 10.06.09
Great Post Amit. Its a sooper coool way to remember numbers.
Cheers’
Vijay
Written by Vijay on 10.06.09
Hi Amit
This is very interesting.
I have always chosen numbers which ’sound’ easy.
My dad chooses numbers which add up to a certain ‘lucky’ number. But this idea seems very interesting.
Written by Vivek Singh on 10.06.09
One of my numbers comes to ‘TWEET’ :P
Written by Praveen Ratna Deepak on 10.06.09
This is a great tips. A new way of memorize telephone numbers.
Written by Simon Liew on 10.06.09
Nice!
Between, can you also write up an article on “How to get a premium cell phone number” OR something similar, may be a story of any one else about getting a premium telephone number.
I understand that this is possible if you have good sources in telecom companies or when you pay a lot but what can be the circumstances when one has no sources?
I’ll be happy to know your recommendations. :)
Written by Atin Gupta on 10.06.09
It is great to have these but these are not new. And more so with all the touchscreen / qwerty phone this is not of much use.
Written by Amit on 10.06.09
I have an issue with spelled out telephone numbers. My smartphone does not have the letters above the numbers. Which means I have to guess the number when presented with a 1-800-savememoney type number. If only the ’smart’phone makers could let me enter a lettered up number in my contacts and be ’smart’ enough to dial i.e. 1-800-goog411. That would be awesome.
Written by Jayson on 10.06.09
any ideas on how to use spelled out numbers on smart phones? I always have to do a best guess when dialing those as the letters don’t show above the numbers.
Written by Jayson on 10.06.09
I checked my current phone numbers, all two of them, with link and neither had *any* words in them whatsoever…what a bore!
Written by David Bradley on 10.06.09
Be careful with GOOG-JOE. Some people may think it is 4664-563. Users of Google Voice have a lot of advanatage as they can actually look up all possible strings which contain a specific text string. For example, I was able to use it and got AMBUJ-40004 as my number. A friend of mine got her full name as a number! Unfortunately Google Voice is not available in India as yet.
Written by Ambuj Saxena on 10.06.09
It might be a good idea if u search for a new number .. or maybe if ur starting a service (like facebook) and then choose the number .. I tried and it is anything but understandable …
Amit – can we get a means by which we can revert back onto others comments here?
Written by Ankush Sharma on 10.07.09
As already suggested by David, Google Voice gives the user to select a number of his/her choice by trying out all possible combinations…I’ve got mine that ends with my surname but had to compromise withthe area code though. Try it!
Written by DWiner on 10.07.09