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It's pretty clear from some simple googling that he ended up somehow activating a feature called "Facebook Texts" (the key giveaway -- that replying to the text

by jzl 9y ago

It's pretty clear from some simple googling that he ended up somehow activating a feature called "Facebook Texts" (the key giveaway -- that replying to the texts posted to his wall): https://www.facebook.com/help/130694300342171?helpref=faq_content https://www.facebook.com/help/130694300342171?helpref=faq_co... I believe that he didn't set this up intentionally and it may very well be a bug that caused him to be signed up, but as bad as Facebook is I'll eat my shoe if they signed up every single person who gave a 2FA phone number to this service. Not to detract from the fact that Facebook's nagging is indeed a huge problem.

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reaperducer 9y ago
> I'll eat my shoe if they signed up every single person who gave a 2FA phone number to this service. Facebook doesn't have to sign up every 2FA person. It can pick a few hundred or thousand and see what happens. If engagement increases, then more 2FA people are brought on board. If this isn't widespread, it may not be the user's fault. It may just be the camel's nose under the tent.
- akvadrako 9y ago
  The evil of unrestrained A/B testing.
  - throwaway2048 9y ago
    I've heard engagement increases if you give the impression a family member is going through a personal crisis, perhaps facebook ought to look into the technique, seems excellent for the metrics.
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skue 9y ago
No. Look at the following tweet. He explicitly says that he hasn’t enabled this and posted a screenshot of his settings: https://mobile.twitter.com/Gabriel__Lewis/status/963121814166630400 https://mobile.twitter.com/Gabriel__Lewis/status/96312181416... Update: Matthew Green just experienced the same thing, in the midst of tweeting about the security implications of abusing 2FA phone numbers this way: https://mobile.twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/963766661466787840 https://mobile.twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/9637666614...
toomanybeersies 9y ago
It's a default that's checked when you add your phone number. I'm not happy that it's a default, but when I added my phone number I had no trouble noticing it and disabling it.
aczerepinski 9y ago
My wife started getting these after she hadn't logged in for a few weeks. We thought it was them getting nervous about a lost user. Since she hadn't logged in, it definitely wasn't her accidentally checking a "please text me spam" button.

by jzl 9y ago

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reaperducer 9y ago

> I'll eat my shoe if they signed up every single person who gave a 2FA phone number to this service. Facebook doesn't have to sign up every 2FA person. It can pick a few hundred or thousand and see what happens. If engagement increases, then more 2FA people are brought on board. If this isn't widespread, it may not be the user's fault. It may just be the camel's nose under the tent.

akvadrako 9y ago
The evil of unrestrained A/B testing.
- throwaway2048 9y ago
  I've heard engagement increases if you give the impression a family member is going through a personal crisis, perhaps facebook ought to look into the technique, seems excellent for the metrics.

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skue 9y ago

No. Look at the following tweet. He explicitly says that he hasn’t enabled this and posted a screenshot of his settings: https://mobile.twitter.com/Gabriel__Lewis/status/963121814166630400 https://mobile.twitter.com/Gabriel__Lewis/status/96312181416... Update: Matthew Green just experienced the same thing, in the midst of tweeting about the security implications of abusing 2FA phone numbers this way: https://mobile.twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/963766661466787840 https://mobile.twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/9637666614...

toomanybeersies 9y ago

It's a default that's checked when you add your phone number. I'm not happy that it's a default, but when I added my phone number I had no trouble noticing it and disabling it.

aczerepinski 9y ago

My wife started getting these after she hadn't logged in for a few weeks. We thought it was them getting nervous about a lost user. Since she hadn't logged in, it definitely wasn't her accidentally checking a "please text me spam" button.