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Facebook spamming users via their 2FA phone numbers

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Re: Facebook spamming users via their 2FA phone numbers

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Post by notyourwork »

SamLevin88 wrote: post #4

Finally, somewhere I can appropriately vent about this. About TWO years ago I was constantly annoyed by the 'secure your account: add your phone number here' banner frequently displayed at the top of the page upon loading FB, so I input my number to make it disappear for good. (Also, they kept hiding the 'x' (close) icon in different spots, making the banner difficult to dismiss.) A few days later I got a text messag…

I'm confused because I have never found dismissing the secure your account interface hard to close.

Re: Facebook spamming users via their 2FA phone numbers

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Post by b3lvedere »

fortylove wrote: post #104

As this stream of negative facebook articles continue, I can't help but feel duped about my experiences with it. I've quit fb since new years, but I can't help but wonder if I was played the whole time. I feel like they advertised fb as an altruistic platform, when in reality, I was just a means to marketing dollars and they fed whatever altruistic lines they wanted to keep me coming back. Serious question: does fb p…

Take a real good long look in the eyes of Mark Zuckerberg. Take any picture or video you want. Just take a good look.

Do you trust him?

Re: Facebook spamming users via their 2FA phone numbers

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Post by DanielBMarkham »

ReidZB wrote: post #22
SamLevin88 wrote: post #4

Finally, somewhere I can appropriately vent about this. About TWO years ago I was constantly annoyed by the 'secure your account: add your phone number here' banner frequently displayed at the top of the page upon loading FB, so I input my number to make it disappear for good. (Also, they kept hiding the 'x' (close) icon in different spots, making the banner difficult to dismiss.) A few days later I got a text messag…

> I realize that the proper solution is to terminate my account and never attempt to log back in.... but I've had my account since 2006 and despite the company's terrible practices, I'm really not interested in disconnecting for good at this time Well, that's the real problem, isn't it? If users aren't punishing Facebook by leaving the platform in droves, then what incentive does Facebook have to stop its consistentl…

"...Well, that's the real problem, isn't it? If users aren't punishing Facebook by leaving the platform in droves, then what incentive does Facebook have to stop its consistently user-hostile business practices?..."

And the reason they're not leaving and don't want to leave? Where else are you going to connect up with old friends and remote family members?

I said it when Facebook started growing like gangbusters. Facebook is the frickin' devil. It uses your friends and family against you. For a free service, it sure costs like hell.

Re: Facebook spamming users via their 2FA phone numbers

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Post by swiley »

SamLevin88 wrote: post #4

Finally, somewhere I can appropriately vent about this. About TWO years ago I was constantly annoyed by the 'secure your account: add your phone number here' banner frequently displayed at the top of the page upon loading FB, so I input my number to make it disappear for good. (Also, they kept hiding the 'x' (close) icon in different spots, making the banner difficult to dismiss.) A few days later I got a text messag…

I knew they would do something like this so I never put it in.

Re: Facebook spamming users via their 2FA phone numbers

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Post by wccrawford »

jkmcf wrote: post #91
fahadkhan wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I left Facebook. But mainly because I realised that it's a real poor way to keep in touch with anyone. Gives you the feeling that you are keeping in touch when in reality you are just sharing photos and quotes in a medium that's very noisy with adverts.

If you never comment on each other's posts, then you aren't interacting. However, it is a great way to "keep appraised" of how people are doing. There are a ton of people I've met throughout my life and around the world, but only a handful with whom I want to interact regularly. FB, annoying as it is, at least let's me know if they are doing ok.

"apprised", not "appraised".

Re: Facebook spamming users via their 2FA phone numbers

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Post by muninn_ »

DanielBMarkham wrote: post #113
ReidZB wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I realize that the proper solution is to terminate my account and never attempt to log back in.... but I've had my account since 2006 and despite the company's terrible practices, I'm really not interested in disconnecting for good at this time Well, that's the real problem, isn't it? If users aren't punishing Facebook by leaving the platform in droves, then what incentive does Facebook have to stop its consistentl…

"...Well, that's the real problem, isn't it? If users aren't punishing Facebook by leaving the platform in droves, then what incentive does Facebook have to stop its consistently user-hostile business practices?..." And the reason they're not leaving and don't want to leave? Where else are you going to connect up with old friends and remote family members? I said it when Facebook started growing like gangbusters. Fac…

>And the reason they're not leaving and don't want to leave? Where else are you going to connect up with old friends and remote family members?

Pick up the phone. There's FaceTime, Skype, text messages, actual phone calls, going to visit, sending letters, sending emails.

Or, if you can't be bothered to do any of that maybe you should not even bother trying to connect?

Re: Facebook spamming users via their 2FA phone numbers

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Post by Faaak »

reaperducer wrote: post #60

Things like this are the reason that when a company starts spamming me, I update my account with the company's own information. I started when no matter how many times I tried to unsubscribe, Walgreens kept using my phone number (which is supposed to be used to verify that the right person is getting the prescription) to spam me flu shot notices, auto-refill offers, and more. So now those robocalls go to Walgreens HQ…

I do the same with B2B email spam. Just give another spammer's info, so company A spams company B, B spams C, etc.

I've got a small list with CEOs emails, numbers, etc.

Not legal, but I like it

Re: Facebook spamming users via their 2FA phone numbers

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Post by joering2 »

Caveman_Coder wrote: post #29
Panino wrote: post #18

> Importantly, Lewis isn't the only person who claims this happened to him. One Facebook user says he accidentally told "friends and family to go [to] hell" when he "replied to the spam." Wow. I deleted my FB acct. 8 or 9 years ago because it kept getting worse and worse. It's just sad to read about it now. From my POV, Facebook is like a TV series that had an incredible first few episodes but quickly grew progressiv…

We've probably hit peak FB...or perhaps FB has jumped-the-shark using your TV series comparison...either way, any news about the decline of FB is good in my book.

I believe we just getting into a period of social networks phenomena, where everyone is sick and tired of the big Facebook, and soon a fresh new thing will pop-up... This network will be smoother, nicer and smarter approach to social networks than Facebook is and will serve same users, just more mature. Sure few years ago FB was such giant that noone could touch it. But since then the cost of Cloud-computing and serving millions of connections per hour went drastically down, and its never been a rocket science to design and program basic social network.

I just wonder if we already have such network and I just happened not to hear about it yet :)

Re: Facebook spamming users via their 2FA phone numbers

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Post by riyakhanna1983 »

I removed my number from my Facebook account when I realized that FB was linking my WhatsApp conversations to my FB account using my phone number and displaying ADs on my FB feed based on my WhatsApp conversations. What a desperate move by FB! losers! lol

Re: Facebook spamming users via their 2FA phone numbers

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Post by brewdad »

tehlike wrote: post #95
spraak wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I guess this leaves email, SMS and IRC as the main remaining options. But how are those not also vendor lock-ins?

You can text anyone on any network.

Anyone in your home country.

For me, and I don't think I am unusual in the US at least, texts to anywhere outside of the US, Canada, and Mexico aren't allowed without paying extra. Texts to many countries aren't allowed at any price.

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