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This is true for all Meta/Google/Twitter properties. No phone number results in a high chance of suspension irrespective of your usage.

dissident_coder 3y ago
It's a bot prevention measure (allegedly). It also conveniently blocks out people that are more likely to not want to share all of their personal information with them. No skin off my back, the less toxic social media garbage I'm allowed to use, the better for my sanity, good riddance.
- butlike 3y ago
  TO BE FAIR (and I'm still on the fence how I feel about this)... the less personal information you share, the more bot-like you appear to be.
  - dissident_coder 3y ago
    Meta/Google/etc... at the end of the day are businesses, and the currency they deal with when transacting with us is our personal information and they convert that to dollars with their partners. As I also value freedom of association, I am perfectly alright with them refusing to "do business" with me because I do not find the denomination and terms of the transaction acceptable. I do not really have any inclination to want to compel them to serve me by force of gun, either. I think both they and myself are better off in this scenario where we just choose to not do business with each other and I find some other business that has more acceptable terms - or I just go without, these services aren't as essential as some people think.
Jare 3y ago
But I did give them my phone number. I'm pretty sure they already had it from Facebook anyway, I've had a FB account for 15 years. They just were unable to send the code to it, so I could not proceed with whatever appeal process they have in place. That said, if the next step was asking for my face, I'd have probably stopped right there like a poster said. They do have photos of me (Facebook) but it would just be too much.

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This is true for all Meta/Google/Twitter properties. No phone number results in a high chance of suspension irrespective of your usage.

by captn3m0 3y ago

dissident_coder 3y ago
It's a bot prevention measure (allegedly). It also conveniently blocks out people that are more likely to not want to share all of their personal information with them. No skin off my back, the less toxic social media garbage I'm allowed to use, the better for my sanity, good riddance.
- butlike 3y ago
  TO BE FAIR (and I'm still on the fence how I feel about this)... the less personal information you share, the more bot-like you appear to be.
  - dissident_coder 3y ago
    Meta/Google/etc... at the end of the day are businesses, and the currency they deal with when transacting with us is our personal information and they convert that to dollars with their partners. As I also value freedom of association, I am perfectly alright with them refusing to "do business" with me because I do not find the denomination and terms of the transaction acceptable. I do not really have any inclination to want to compel them to serve me by force of gun, either. I think both they and myself are better off in this scenario where we just choose to not do business with each other and I find some other business that has more acceptable terms - or I just go without, these services aren't as essential as some people think.
Jare 3y ago
But I did give them my phone number. I'm pretty sure they already had it from Facebook anyway, I've had a FB account for 15 years. They just were unable to send the code to it, so I could not proceed with whatever appeal process they have in place. That said, if the next step was asking for my face, I'd have probably stopped right there like a poster said. They do have photos of me (Facebook) but it would just be too much.