Facebook wants my phone number

dusterd

Today I tried to log onto Facebook and I enter correct details(email + password). I got a security message saying:
For security reasons your account is temporarily locked

If this account reflects your real name and personal information, please help us verify it.


Then a continue button. I clicked on the button and it asked to put in a security verification code. I entered the correct code in the box and then it asks me for my phone number.


I have no intention of freely giving Facebook my phone number, not for any security problem they may be having.


The thing is, I cant get past it or around it. What happens now? I cannot seem to contact facebook either.



Has anyone found this with Facebook and what was the solution without entering the phone mumber?

BrianD

There is no solution. You have to verify via a mobile.

https://www.facebook.com/help/verify

Their rationale is that it stops fake accounts being created.

scruffywoof

Yes i did this too and its just a security thing!

Mrs OBumble

They want a phone number that you have access to.

If you're that paranoid, buy a pre-pay SIM from Tesco or somewhere, and put it in a non-network locked phone (yours or a friends) for a just long enough to let them verify.

scruffywoof

Yes you can do that too. But I think its ok

tyview

I'm in the same boat BUT i have done the verify your account thing by mobile before, months ago. I had no problems with that. I didnt really car about giving out my phone number for this. This time its different. Its not just to verify you its more than that. It has actually locked the account and when I ask for a code, I get it between 12 and 18 hours later and when I'm online i put it in and it says it has expires! I have to say its driving me mad!! :mad: Theres no way to contact them either. They have a few ways to contact them but it is just an imediate automated response. I've been locked since last week.

dusterd

But what about my security? The Law wouldn't ask me for my phone number, I wouldn't give it anyway. So I'm definetly not giving it to Facebook. Here is another thing, Facebook tracks your movements around the web. Ever been on a web page and you seen your own picture on that page with the FB logo beside it.
Why do they want my phone number anyway? Is my email address and password not good enough?
Where does it go next? Will they be asking me for my credit card details or my bank account number?

dusterd

tyview wrote: »

I'm in the same boat BUT i have done the verify your account thing by mobile before, months ago. I had no problems with that. I didnt really car about giving out my phone number for this. This time its different. Its not just to verify you its more than that. It has actually locked the account and when I ask for a code, I get it between 12 and 18 hours later and when I'm online i put it in and it says it has expires! I have to say its driving me mad!! :mad: Theres no way to contact them either. They have a few ways to contact them but it is just an imediate automated response. I've been locked since last week.

I'm not locked out yet, I just refuse to give them my phone number. But then again I cant get on until I give them my number. I always used the skip option to bypass the "enter your phone number" before. But now there is no option to skip it.

BuffyBot

dusterd wrote: »

But what about my security? The Law wouldn't ask me for my phone number, I wouldn't give it anyway. So I'm definetly not giving it to Facebook. Here is another thing, Facebook tracks your movements around the web. Ever been on a web page and you seen your own picture on that page with the FB logo beside it.
Why do they want my phone number anyway? Is my email address and password not good enough?
Where does it go next? Will they be asking me for my credit card details or my bank account number?

You do realise that FB is not mandatory? They have a right to ask, just has you have a right not to give. But access to FB is at their discretion.

Facebook uses cookies. The same cookies that have been on the web almost since it's inception. This is not news.

dusterd

BuffyBot wrote: »

You do realise that FB is not mandatory? They have a right to ask, just has you have a right not to give. But access to FB is at their discretion.

Facebook uses cookies. The same cookies that have been on the web almost since it's inception. This is not news.

Maybe not news to you who is obviously an experienced user of the internet. I only put that out there in laymans terms for other users to understand.

Facebook may not be mandatory, but I like to use it. But i really don't see why It's mandatory for me to give them my number.

Now, Is there any solution to my probem. I don't want to give Facebook my phone number, but I still want to use it. Addictive as it is.

the watchman

dusterd wrote: »

Maybe not news to you who is obviously an experienced user of the internet. I only put that out there in laymans terms for other users to understand.

Facebook may not be mandatory, but I like to use it. But i really don't see why It's mandatory for me to give them my number.

Now, Is there any solution to my probem. I don't want to give Facebook my phone number, but I still want to use it. Addictive as it is.

Hi Dusterd.
I have repeatedly complained about this behaviour of 'the big ones' Google etc. regarding numbers. I've posted on Boards many times about this.
They've got us by the short and curlies now. The companies are such a huge part of our lives that they know 'realistically' we can't do without them so the vast majority of people will eventually succumb to giving 'almost any' information they ask. Blood type requests coming soon:D.

When will the governments wake up and start to look at these monopolies and and do something about this rape of our privacy.

I've never given a mobile yet but getting close to the time when I will have to. Am getting an old Mobile from a friend this week. I'd love to sign up to sites and with number and throw the mobile away...then where would you be later when they ask for it again....

There is no valid reason to use mobile for verification. Catchpas and security questions are good enough.
COME ON ANONYMOUS, help us out here please::D
who's anonymous......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM0-OJmyvBY

dusterd

To put an end to the whole thing, I didn't give my phone number. They have deleted my account in the mean time, so thats the end of FB for me.

the watchman

sorry to hear that Dusterd. They are so big and now don't seem to care.
The internet is changing so rapidly now. It used to be we could surf and join so many sites anonymously. Now it seems that that they all want to know who you actually are now and that IPs are not enough anymore. Freedom of the net...now that already sounds like a bygone era already lol..

gnfnrhead

I'm having the same problem now but my number is in use on a different account. Is there any way around it other than buying a new sim card?

Jagle

dusterd wrote: »

To put an end to the whole thing, I didn't give my phone number. They have deleted my account in the mean time, so thats the end of FB for me.

the irony is that they dont delete any of your data, your profile is stil there with all youre pictures