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100% agree with strategy #3, except I'm finding it harder to implement: 1. Everybody wants your phone number these days, especially those you don't want to giv
by NikolaNovak 5y ago
100% agree with strategy #3, except I'm finding it harder to implement:
1. Everybody wants your phone number these days, especially those you don't want to give it to. From whatsapp and signal that use it as your main identify, whether you want to or not; to social sites like Facebook or Twitter that MAY let you sign up without phone, but "flag" you for security on first login and require phone; to other sites whether gmail or otherwise that require phone to sign in
2. More and more of them these days send a text to phone to verify it belongs to you
I'm therefore finding it harder and harder to not give my phone to everybody (of course, "not using the product" is always a possibility, so I still don't have a twitter account and by all accounts my life is better for it :)
- KoftaBob 5y agoFor sure, though at the very least the examples you gave are mostly other social networks. So at worst, it allows them to know what other social networks you use. What you want to avoid is using your phone number when doing things like online shopping, since that's when more personal details about you can be connected to your number, and therefore to the other social networks you used that number with.