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i deleted my facebook acc years ago, but people keep using my gmail when registring for facebook, i dont know how is facebook allowing that. i though after som

i deleted my facebook acc years ago, but people keep using my gmail when registring for facebook, i dont know how is facebook allowing that. i though after some time without verifying the email facebook would disable the account, so i filtered those to not go to my inbox. but facebook never did that. so i had to contact them to disable the account and verify that this is my email address and not from the person that registered it. they removed then my email for that account. after half a year somebody else registered the email again, and im getting again emails from fb and now im filtering it to go to spam directly. it makes me angry.

QasimK 9y ago
I've had this problem with multiple other services including Facebook, Skype, Dropbox and Snapchat and sometimes the service just assumes "yeah that's that guy's email, we don't need to verify it". Makes me angry too :)
cornholio 9y ago
The verified solution to this is to recover the password for that account, login, remove phone, change the password and the profile picture to that of an ass. You will never be bothered since they can only use an email once, and it will nicely throw a wrench into any massive surveillance machine by associating your email with a completely foreign social graph. It's also what the original user probably intended - I mean, he did use your email address, did he not?
- disiplus 9y ago
  i did try that, but you know what, facebook had a protection where it said, you are logging form an unusual place, please verify that you are the owner of the account in that they trow you a bunch of your friends and ask information about them.
  - chillwaves 9y ago
    Facebook did this to me and I was unable to access my own account (that had been disabled for years). So I gave up. Actually appreciate them for putting that barrier in place. I am happy to not be on Facebook.
- slig 9y ago
  > It's also what the original user probably intended You'd be surprised the number of clueless people that have no idea what their email address is. They might have the username@(att|aol|yahoo) and believe now it's @gmail. It's more ignorance than malice in cases like these. FB, OTOH, is not forcing the email verification because they know that it's a friction and they don't want that.
  - phil21 9y ago
    Yep, I have the name of this account as a gmail account as well - and I get legitimately typo'ed e-mail from someone at least once a week. As fun as the replying to shopping list e-mails is, the auto-responders for signup forms do get quite old after a while. And it is truly amazing how long accounts will last with bad e-mail addresses on them (looking at you, Netflix).
  - Izkata 9y ago
    Yep, I believe this is exactly what happened to me a few months ago. Someone kept using <myuser>@gmail.com to register for a bunch of different things. Based on the human name attached to a couple of the accounts, I'm fairly sure it was twitter user @<myuser>, which isn't me. I was able to contact one of the sites and they deleted the account believing I just didn't want it anymore (they didn't seem to comprehend that someone would register with the wrong email), but most of them I just ended up using the "lost password" feature. > FB, OTOH, is not forcing the email verification because they know that it's a friction and they don't want that. Here's the most annoying part: Apple iCloud sent me a "please verify your email address" confirmation email, which I never clicked on. But she was able to use the account anyway, with my email address still attached - I kept getting notifications about someone else repeatedly joining/leaving her "family" group.

QasimK 9y ago

I've had this problem with multiple other services including Facebook, Skype, Dropbox and Snapchat and sometimes the service just assumes "yeah that's that guy's email, we don't need to verify it". Makes me angry too :)

cornholio 9y ago

The verified solution to this is to recover the password for that account, login, remove phone, change the password and the profile picture to that of an ass. You will never be bothered since they can only use an email once, and it will nicely throw a wrench into any massive surveillance machine by associating your email with a completely foreign social graph. It's also what the original user probably intended - I mean, he did use your email address, did he not?

disiplus 9y ago
i did try that, but you know what, facebook had a protection where it said, you are logging form an unusual place, please verify that you are the owner of the account in that they trow you a bunch of your friends and ask information about them.
- chillwaves 9y ago
  Facebook did this to me and I was unable to access my own account (that had been disabled for years). So I gave up. Actually appreciate them for putting that barrier in place. I am happy to not be on Facebook.
slig 9y ago
> It's also what the original user probably intended You'd be surprised the number of clueless people that have no idea what their email address is. They might have the username@(att|aol|yahoo) and believe now it's @gmail. It's more ignorance than malice in cases like these. FB, OTOH, is not forcing the email verification because they know that it's a friction and they don't want that.
- phil21 9y ago
  Yep, I have the name of this account as a gmail account as well - and I get legitimately typo'ed e-mail from someone at least once a week. As fun as the replying to shopping list e-mails is, the auto-responders for signup forms do get quite old after a while. And it is truly amazing how long accounts will last with bad e-mail addresses on them (looking at you, Netflix).
- Izkata 9y ago
  Yep, I believe this is exactly what happened to me a few months ago. Someone kept using <myuser>@gmail.com to register for a bunch of different things. Based on the human name attached to a couple of the accounts, I'm fairly sure it was twitter user @<myuser>, which isn't me. I was able to contact one of the sites and they deleted the account believing I just didn't want it anymore (they didn't seem to comprehend that someone would register with the wrong email), but most of them I just ended up using the "lost password" feature. > FB, OTOH, is not forcing the email verification because they know that it's a friction and they don't want that. Here's the most annoying part: Apple iCloud sent me a "please verify your email address" confirmation email, which I never clicked on. But she was able to use the account anyway, with my email address still attached - I kept getting notifications about someone else repeatedly joining/leaving her "family" group.