Why is my phone number grayed out in Facetime?

I dont get what happened with iOS6... but apparently I cannot use my phone number for facetime? As it is grayed out and I cannot check it off as the address to receive Facetime...
Also... I am now showing up in peoples phones as 2 contacts... one with my phone number and one with my email address... Why did this happen? how do i merge them?

MChadha84 wrote:
Actually... I clearly know how to use the software... ive only had 2 iphones, 3 ipads, and a macbook..
I was simply asking why it is grayed out...
and why other people have me as 2 different cotnacts in their phones now... One my phone number, and a second contact as my email address... why dont they have me in one... and NO smartass they did not add me as a second cotnact... it happened on its own...
By chance, are you running a Mac with Mountain Lion OSX 10.8.2?  If so, I noticed something similar.... I now have my phone number and email address for use in Facetime and Messages.  Maybe your user friends have not upgraded to iOS6, because both addresses only show in iOS I believe.  iOS 5 only shows one or the other address.

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