Have you previously paid any attention to the permissions the Facebook app asks for at all?

I wanted to install Facebook on my Android device so I could share stuff on Facebook via the native "share" intent. Seeing the permission list made me reconsider.

When they broke messenger off into a different app I uninstalled. Right now I only use the mobile browser version and really only to upload photos of my daughter for my family to see. I'm starting to use it less and less though because the browser version is terrible.

If you're on Android, try using Tinfoil. It's the same browser version (so it may still be terrible for you), but interacting with it is a little easier than just opening Chrome/FF and going to fb.com.

Read the article, this is a separate app. No need to uninstall the Facebook app. Or does this new app makes you so angry that you feel like deleting an other app from them?

Nobody is forcing this on anyone. If you find it useful, install it. If you don't, then don't.

But if I don't install it then the people I call still get my information without my knowledge, don't they?

Only if you're connected with them on Facebook. (As I understand it.)

They can easily upload their contact lists with your number included when finding friends. So yeah, our numbers are already on FB thanks to our friends.

Thereis no new information being made public. Anything that can be seen through this can be seen through a a web browser already.

No more information than was already public on facebook, according to your privacy settings, as far as I can see.

This is a relatively marginal step in terms of their mining more user data. How is this one so much more egregious than anything else they do?

How so?