Hey Bob, can I get your phone number?

Hi Bob

I was going to call you to invite you to the party.

But, alas. I didn't have your phone number.

The ladies were so disappointed that you wouldn't be there. Your favorites, whips and whipping cream. Went to waste.

LTG : (

I hear ya Bob, I'm in the exact same boat as you (another land line lover). However, I have no interest in Facebook anything and can get all the pinball I need between here and RGP. No need to give out your number or any other information if you don't want to.

John

A good friend signed me on to her fakebook account so I could use marketplace to find a pinball machine. Still looking, same machines, overpriced sit there day after day. Worse than craigslist ever was.

It was brain dead easy to set up fake accounts without any authentication methods in place. Not just create one or two accounts at a time, but dozens or hundreds en masse. Spammers, scammers, and other malicious actors could easily use them to do whatever it is that they do.

The point of the phone number is to add an extra hurdle and link online accounts to a real, unique piece of information that isn't as easily spoofed. To essentially prove that a real person is operating the account.

Good deals rarely stay up for more than a few minutes.

i hear you , i hate it when people at stores ask for your postal code , or phone # , if more people would just say no , they would not ask

Its Facebook. You're really not missing much at all. I shut mine down a couple of years ago and never looked back.

I don’t want your number

You never heard about russia using facebook? Creating many fake accounts to influence an election? Lack of security causing zuckerburg to face congress? My guess is, that has something to do with the security questions you are dealing with.

I had a door to door salesman wanting to sell me fiber optic cable and internet the other day but needed me to give him my full name. I laughed and told him i would get my wallet and he could take a pic of my drivers license for him. I then told him to get the f out of here and shut the door while walking upstairs hearing him shouting through the door if i was interested!

Same day i get Mr Ross Green calling me from the tax department while on the road saying I will be arrested if I dont pay what i owe. Mr. Green sports a serious Indian accent and I tried to keep him on the phone as long as possible but after 10 minutes of me fucking with him he hung up.

Fast forward to that evening I get a call from my phone service provider saying i qualify for a new phone! I ask what the promotion is but he must first verify who I am. I said lmk what you have and we can take it from there. He insisted that he cant do anything without my name. At that point after having a good laugh I told him to get the f out of here.

Easiest solution is just don't answer your door or the phone. Works great for me.

Fake phone number apps. I always use the “text free” apps for phone numbers craigslist and such. I don’t give my real number till I meet in person or at least a successful deal is made.

So far it’s worked well

So your sayin the number you gave me 1-708-GET-BENT wasn't really your Real number??? I knew it! lol

I can tell you what you need to know to handle all of this and make money at the same time. It's too long to post here....I will give you a call.

Facebook sucks ass big time. I wouldn’t give them any information and delete the account as soon as you can.

Hey, I paid EXTRA for that number! The best part of it is how easy and simple it is, all you need is a copy of your birth certificate, license plate and SS card! It’s THAT easy!

I'll just add that Paypal functions like a bank, and indeed any Paypal accounts have to, at a minimum, be linked to a credit card. And many Paypal accounts are linked to checking accounts. I know that's how I transfer money in and out of my Paypal account. Forcing you to use a phone number when reactivating your Paypal account, means that it's less likely that a hacker or other criminal could fraudulently access your account. If a criminal gained access to your Paypal account they could do all sorts of bad stuff. Including ripping you and others off for thousands of dollars.

Paypal requires all your personal information, just like a bank. And if Paypal didn't require identity verification, then Paypal could more easily be used for money laundering and a host of other illegal financial activities.

It's not always a scam bob, sometimes requiring so much information is actually just to keep your data/money safe, and to stay within the confines of the law.

Oh, and to everyone hating on Facebook. I get it, believe me. But there are A LOT of great pinball deals on there. And it's much easier to communicate back and forth with a seller/buyer on FB, than it is on CL, or even Pinside. And it's a lot easier to verify whether or not a seller/buyer/deal is a hoax or not. Since you can see the profile of whoever is contacting you through FB.

Facebook was very handy when I was dating, and it was also really useful for communicating with my wife and family when I was in Afghanistan. Since I got back, I've barely used it, until I got into pinball that is. Now thanks to pinball, I'm on there a lot more, whether I like it or not!

6 years ago I was on Facebook. I received a message from them saying they wanted to verify my name and that I would need to upload photo I.D to them for verification. Otherwise my account would be locked until I did so.

I went into the paint program on my computer and clicked on the paintbrush and wrote "go fuck yourself Zuckerberg" in big black letters.

I saved the file and uploaded it to Facebook. My account was banned shortly after. Never been back since.

It’s all about money and information.
Sucks but that’s the world we live in now.
Makes you want to cut the cord some days
::::::u know what I mean

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Your number is easy to get, it's on toilet walls everywhere!

You can call me or text and my number is 867-5309...
Call anytime you get the urge.
That's what I usually tell those people that have no business asking for my phone number.

Well, requiring a phone number would prevent a robot from being able to gain access, since a human has to read the verification text they send.

But I really meant, going forward after linking your phone number, it would make it harder for someone else to access your Paypal account. Security questions don't work, because so many people forget the answers that they gave, and then the account has to be unlocked some other way and questions/passwords reset.

Either way, it's always a good idea to think about whether or not to provide information to a website or service.

It's about security and to help prevent scammers. I'm glad they do this. Most of my sales are through Facebook.