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Honest question: Why would you give your phone number to FB? Related to their app perhaps (which I don't have)?
by intrasight 6y ago
Honest question: Why would you give your phone number to FB? Related to their app perhaps (which I don't have)?
- invalidusernam3 6y agoI haven't used facebook in years, but if I remember correctly it was part of your account verification in some cases.
- Black101 6y agoI don't know but I never gave my phone number to Facebook (but I also never used the app, only the website).
- newscracker 6y agoOver the years, many people who were stuck in the Facebook platform have been coerced by Facebook into providing a phone number to “verify” their account. The other choice given to them was (and is) to lose access to the account because Facebook believes it’s a fake account or a spam account or a “violation of its community policy”. In other cases, Facebook may get the phone number because someone uploaded their address book/contacts to it. This information shouldn’t be in the user’s public/private profile (even though Facebook would store it internally, use it to figure out other connections and “show relevant ads”).