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Re: Facebook now wants your personal phone number.... So to summarize, either you give in to FB's demands or they force you to become a criminal?
Yeesh. Isn't that entrapment?
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OK... I've managed to stay out of this thread until now, since I'm not a Facebook user (and have no intention of becoming one) - so I don't really have a pony in the race. But I'm trying to understand a point of view that keeps emerging in this and most of the past FB-related threads... namely that it's somehow "wrong" for FB to demand a phone number or some other personally-identifying information to open/maintain a FB account.
If I were to purchase a service or product somewhere on the Internet (either with or without a EULA indicating some of my personal data would be shared), would I not expect to have to unmistakeably identify myself and/or provide information if I elected to proceed? Suppose the purchase price was zero (as in the case of most of the software give-away offers that pop up by 'name' companies from time to time)... would I not still have to go through an information-submittal process as well? (Hint: the answer is "yes", because that's how those offers do work.)
Now, Facebook is providing a no-charge "social network" service (paying for it with user information and/or ads served to the user). Sometimes that service gets abused by unpleasant folks, and problems then arise in other people's lives. Why is there an expectation that users are entitled to the no-charge service without providing any information or identification? And, more significantly, why is FB "wrong" in demanding account-applicant identification, in whatever sense of the word "wrong"? Once again, I'm not trying to launch an argument... I'm merely trying to get a handle on the reasoning behind such opinions I see so often expressed.
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australia | said by Blackbird:If I were to purchase a service or product somewhere on the Internet (either with or without a EULA indicating some of my personal data would be shared), would I not expect to have to unmistakeably identify myself and/or provide information if I elected to proceed?.......
.....why is FB "wrong" in demanding account-applicant identification,....
Facebook has broken promises in regards to how it would handle users data in the past.
For this reason i don't think demanding a new avenue to screw with, such as your phone no. is fair. A copy of your license with some identity points omitted is reasonable.
Of course you can always give them as much info as you as you like/trust them with.
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The problem with creating a new FB account is, for every new account that is created a "different" valid phone number is required. I highly doubt that the average person has multiple phone numbers, especially phone numbers that they would willingly put in the hands of the morons that are in charge of FB. FB management has already proven that they are irresponsible in several areas of managing FB. I can't see FB being responsible enough and trustworthy enough to be trusted in keeping private phone numbers, private. How many people are willing to take that risk? |
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Do you trust people that you have never met or ever laid eyes on before, with your personal private information, such as SS# or credit card number? I think that a private phone number falls into the same category. That's why it's called, "private." Also, FYI, One thing that FB neglects to tell people before entering their phone number is, when a phone number is used for FB identity, it is posted for public access on their account, until the owner of the FB account goes into their security settings and chooses the option to make it private. |
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davePremium,MVM
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kudos:8 | said by Freebird :Do you trust people that you have never met or ever laid eyes on before, with your personal private information, such as SS# or credit card number? Actually, yes. Just the other day I typed my credit card number into an airline web site. In fact, more often than the converse, I give my credit card number to someone unknown that I've never met. In most of the other cases, I give it to someone I'll never meet again. That sort of thing seems to be intrinsic to having a credit card to use. |
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DelmarPip
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South Padre Island, TX | reply to KoRnGtL15
facebook is a social website like myspace a place for people to meet and do stuff not a online shop your personal info on facebook will be viewed by every one becuase facebook will take that info an put it in your profile that most people dont know how to setup an use the privacy settings to protect themselfs against pedos stakers or serial killers i been reading about fb there have already been kidnappings an rapings happening at fb just google it |
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 JuggernautIrreverent or irrelevant?Premium
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kudos:2 | said by DelmarPip:facebook is a social website like myspace a place for people to meet and do stuff not a online shop your personal info on facebook will be viewed by every one becuase facebook will take that info an put it in your profile that most people dont know how to setup an use the privacy settings to protect themselfs against pedos stakers or serial killers i been reading about fb there have already been kidnappings an rapings happening at fb just google it
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Mele20Premium
join:2001-06-05
Hilo, HI
kudos:4 | reply to Blackbird
said by Blackbird: Suppose the purchase price was zero (as in the case of most of the software give-away offers that pop up by 'name' companies from time to time)... would I not still have to go through an information-submittal process as well? (Hint: the answer is "yes", because that's how those offers do work.)
Now, Facebook is providing a no-charge "social network" service (paying for it with user information and/or ads served to the user). Why is there an expectation that users are entitled to the no-charge service without providing any information or identification? And, more significantly, why is FB "wrong" in demanding account-applicant identification, in whatever sense of the word "wrong"?
I can't speak for current joiners of the web. But for those of us who joined when I did (98) or earlier, I think most of us didn't know what hit us when the web changed from Web1 to Web2. I think some still don't know. I can't fathom why Facebook needs my real identity and besides needing it feels compelled to post it for everyone to see. Why can't I just be "Mele20" or "DottieArtiist3", etc. at Facebook? Why on earth would I be forced to give my real name, a real photo of myself and/or a private, unlisted phone number? That is utterly absurd to me as a person who "came of web age" during Web1.
As for purchasing software that may be free during a special offer, why wouldn't you lie? I would lie without a second thought in regards to my real name, real address, phone number, email address (for the latter I would give a short time lived self destruct alias address or a throw away one that would trace me to another nation). Before purchasing software (assuming there was no free offer), I would trial it and I would not give my real name and address for a trial! If I decided at the end of the trial to purchase it, THEN AND ONLY THEN would I need to give my credit card information. And I would not give it unless the vendor had assured me that it would be kept confidential and I trusted that vendor.
What I can't understand is why anyone (even those coming of web age during Web2) would feel they need to put their full name, address, phone number, personal real photo of themselves, on a social website in order to use that website to communicate with friends and family. You would just lie if the site demanded stupid things like your real name and your unlisted phone number. You would keep your page closed to all except your friends and family and they would have to agree to address you either by your handle or first name only and not publish any information that could be used to trace to the real you. But your friends and family would know who your handle represented. This could be extended, if you decided, to anyone on that social network. This is how it was during Web1 days. What happened so suddenly to make many embrace Web2 and enthusiastically give up very fast all privacy that they had on Web1 and that was expected on it? People's minds got corrupted really fast. I keep wondering what Koolaid did so many people drink and how were they induced so rapidly to drink it?
There are still many like myself though. Avira reversed their earlier mandate at their forum that was discussed in this forum on more than one occasion. Avira made it impossible, about 2 years back, for any member to change anything in their profile until they gave their real full name and other identifying information. This mandate included all those using Avira FREE version. Those of us who registered there many years ago were told that if we did not supply our full real names, addresses, etc that we would not only not be able to make changes in our profiles but would be in gross violation of the TOS and subject to ejection from the forum (even though some of us had thousands of posts there and had demonstrated good faith). We were also told that we could not lie about our date of birth. So, for close to two years, I could not change my profile and it got really outdated. We had threads protesting this in the Avira forum and here. Recently, Avira shut down the forum for most of a day to upgrade the software. The new forum no longer makes any mention of a full real name requirement. I still list only a first name handle there yet now I can make all changes to my profile. User's who protest Web2's utter disregard for the user's privacy and anonymity sometimes win still.
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 CheesePremium
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1 edit | said by Mele20:said by Blackbird: Suppose the purchase price was zero (as in the case of most of the software give-away offers that pop up by 'name' companies from time to time)... would I not still have to go through an information-submittal process as well? (Hint: the answer is "yes", because that's how those offers do work.)
Now, Facebook is providing a no-charge "social network" service (paying for it with user information and/or ads served to the user). Why is there an expectation that users are entitled to the no-charge service without providing any information or identification? And, more significantly, why is FB "wrong" in demanding account-applicant identification, in whatever sense of the word "wrong"?
As for purchasing software that may be free during a special offer, why wouldn't you lie? I would lie without a second thought in regards to my real name, real address, phone number, email address (for the latter I would give a short time lived self destruct alias address or a throw away one that would trace me to another nation). Because most people aren't like you and don't feel the need to lie to try to "hide"....most people aren't PARANOID like you. The fact that you advocate lying, is pretty sickening. |
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 AVDRespice, Adspice, ProspicePremium
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AVDRespice, Adspice, ProspicePremium
join:2003-02-06
Onion, NJ
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said by Mele20:I can't speak for current joiners of the web. But for those of us who joined when I did (98) or earlier, I think most of us didn't know what hit us when the web changed from Web1 to Web2. I think some still don't know. I can't fathom why Facebook needs my real identity and besides needing it feels compelled to post it for everyone to see. Why can't I just be "Mele20" or "DottieArtiist3", etc. at Facebook? Why on earth would I be forced to give my real name, a real photo of myself and/or a private, unlisted phone number? That is utterly absurd to me as a person who "came of web age" during Web1. ...
What I can't understand is why anyone (even those coming of web age during Web2) would feel they need to put their full name, address, phone number, personal real photo of themselves, on a social website in order to use that website to communicate with friends and family. You would just lie if the site demanded stupid things like your real name and your unlisted phone number. You would keep your page closed to all except your friends and family and they would have to agree to address you either by your handle or first name only and not publish any information that could be used to trace to the real you. But your friends and family would know who your handle represented. This could be extended, if you decided, to anyone on that social network. This is how it was during Web1 days. What happened so suddenly to make many embrace Web2 and enthusiastically give up very fast all privacy that they had on Web1 and that was expected on it? People's minds got corrupted really fast. I keep wondering what Koolaid did so many people drink and how were they induced so rapidly to drink it?
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Talking in San Francisco over the weekend at the Crunchie Awards, which recognise technological achievements, the 25 year-old web entrepreneur said: “People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people.”
He went on to say that privacy was no longer a ‘social norm’ and had just evolved over time.
"When I got started in my dorm room at Harvard, the question a lot of people asked was, 'why would I want to put any information on the internet at all? Why would I want to have a website?'."
"Then in the last 5 or 6 years, blogging has taken off in a huge way, and just all these different services that have people sharing all this information,” he explained.
attribution: »www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/f···orm.html
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So does Facebook's "wrongness" exist mainly because they are requiring positive user identification for the services they provide, in contrast to user anonymity expectations in the past or in comparison to other free service-providers on the Internet who may be less demanding of positive ID? (Even though FB's services have sometimes been abused by some users to cause harm to other users, thereby exposing FB to costly legal entanglements as a result.)
Does FB's "wrongness" exist because FB too readily/easily exposes users' private information required for registering accounts to their info-marketing or partnered-search-engine enhancement activities?
Does FB's "wrongness" exist in the entire concept of mining user information of whatever kind to sell to support their business model... or in how they represent (past and present) that aspect of their operations?
Or are there other elements entirely where FB is or should be deemed "wrong" - and, if so, for what reasons?
I'm not trying to be obtuse with all this... merely to zero in on the "why" behind the major complaints about Facebook that stimulate intense responses that I continually observe in forum threads like this.
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DelmarPip
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South Padre Island, TX | reply to Cheese
lying is necessary to avoid being targeted by pedos weirdos online preds and bill collectors you always have to be carful i lie all the time about everything to everyone except to the people that i know i can trust people that wont rat me out to bill collectors |
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 SparrowCrystal SkyPremium
join:2002-12-03
Sachakhand | reply to Blackbird
Re: Facebook now wants your personal phone number.... You've been a member here long enough to understand certain products (remember the great Symantec bashing that went on for years?), sites, etc... seem to be criticized and homed in on for a variety of reasons and FB seems to be the color of the scapegoat this year.
I've had a FB account under an assumed name for a while, and as mentioned several times, there are privacy settings that can be locked down on FB as soon as one registers to cause as little damage as possible. Personally, I've had no problems and never gave any private information.
If users buy credits from FB, yes, then they will have private information, but no more than any other social networking or business site. I would not buy FB credits, but I assume FB has safeguards in place the same as the next guy for any monetary transactions.
Why not register under a nom de plume and do a little research? Use an EU proxy and find out what the fuss is all about. Just don't click any "Like" buttons. 
I know you are quite capable of being objective and analytical, so go have some fun and after about a month or so, report back and let's see if you find anything terribly objectionable. If you do, I'll even delete my account!  |
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said by DelmarPip:lying is necessary to avoid being targeted by pedos weirdos online preds and bill collectors you always have to be carful i lie all the time about everything to everyone except to the people that i know i can trust people that wont rat me out to bill collectors
I guess that means you didn't know DSLR is on the search list of Big Brother and bill collectors. |
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 Doctor OldsI Need A Remedy For What's Ailing Me.Premium,VIP
join:2001-04-19
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kudos:18 | reply to DelmarPip
said by DelmarPip:lying is necessary to avoid being targeted by pedos weirdos online preds and bill collectors you always have to be carful i lie all the time about everything to everyone except to the people that i know i can trust people that wont rat me out to bill collectors
Funny thing, but when you pay your bills (as you promised/agreed to when making a purchase using Credit) and don't spend more than you make then bill collectors don't know who the hell that you are and therefore never call you. Imagine that. In over 45 Years, I've NEVER had a bill collector call me much less have a file with my name on it.
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davePremium,MVM
join:2000-05-04
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kudos:8 | reply to DelmarPip
said by DelmarPip:lying is necessary to avoid being targeted by pedos weirdos online preds and bill collectors you always have to be carful i lie all the time about everything to everyone except to the people that i know i can trust people that wont rat me out to bill collectors
Strange that you rate 'bill collectors' pretty much the same as 'pedos'. I'm sort of curious as to how many times you've failed to pay your bills, such that fear of bill collectors starts to become important to you. |
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said by Doctor Olds:Funny thing, but when you pay your bills (as you promised/agreed to when making a purchase using Credit) and don't spend more than you make then bill collectors don't know who the hell that you are and therefore never call you.
Don't count on that.
I've been called for bills belonging to people with my name (but a different state.) Heck, my spouse was served papers by a lawyer for an incident in Las Vegas, and he's never been to Las Vegas.
Point being, databases are often corrupt, and bill collectors (among others) really don't care. They'll beat you to death, and when you try to establish that you're not the "John Smith" they're looking for, they act like you're just a deadbeat avoiding having to pay.
And that's leaving out the whole secondary issue of stolen identity. |
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