No, FaceBook, I'm not telling you my city

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I use FB daily, and something that I see almost every single day is FaceBook asking me to add in my city. I've already said no to this before, and ignored it, yet FB keeps asking. I feel like FB (and maybe other social networks? I don't use others) is hell bent on getting us to add in our city and possibly exact location. It's the same thing with my phone number. FB keeps asking me to do that, and it's never going to happen.

Am I the only one who feels like these social networks are trying to get our personal information out of us?
 
Same here. Why would you even give that information out? No reason we have so many spammers out there! Once you put your information out there on the web, it stays there forever. I actually don't use Facebook much anymore, because every time I post, it'll say where I posted from below the post. There probably is an option to turn that off, but I don't like how social networks are trying to collect this information from us, and sometimes by default or without consent.

I completely agree with you. 🙂
 
I think they require it, so they can suggest friends or whatever, who live in your area. Should be optional and they should get the message if you don't wish to provide it.

the phone number is really personal, why would they want that? xD
 
Well it's your choice to use social networks. So what if Facebook wants to know where you live. If that is an overwhelming issue, you are free leave Facebook. You aren't compelled to use it.
 
David said:
Well it's your choice to use social networks. So what if Facebook wants to know where you live. If that is an overwhelming issue, you are free leave Facebook. You aren't compelled to use it.
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I don't think you're understanding. Social networks are not for flaunting around your location and telling strangers it. FB is for connecting with and meeting new friends. It's fine for a social network to ask once in a while 'Are you sure you don't want to add in your location?', but when it's asking almost every single day, that is an annoyance and borderline stalking from them.

I use FB to talk with family that are in other states. I have no reason to put in my location nor my phone number. Social networks should never ask for such personal information.
 
Drago said:
I don't think you're understanding. Social networks are not for flaunting around your location and telling strangers it. FB is for connecting with and meeting new friends. It's fine for a social network to ask once in a while 'Are you sure you don't want to add in your location?', but when it's asking almost every single day, that is an annoyance and borderline stalking from them.

I use FB to talk with family that are in other states. I have no reason to put in my location nor my phone number. Social networks should never ask for such personal information.
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You are missing the point - I perfectly understand what you are saying. It is a service, not an entitlement or right to be on social networks. You are not the CEO or whomever decides the direction Facebook takes. If they want to ask you for your location, then they are free to do so. You do not dictate what Facebook decides to do with their service - their understanding of a social network is different to yours.

It's not even a matter of principle. You are using their service, for which you agreed to their terms of service. They can ask as much as they want, and if such a trivial and minor thing annoys you, then please kindly take a step back and evaluate your life.

Don't get me wrong, I don't provide my information because I don't want to, but it's really easy to ignore it.
 
David said:
Drago said:
I don't think you're understanding. Social networks are not for flaunting around your location and telling strangers it. FB is for connecting with and meeting new friends. It's fine for a social network to ask once in a while 'Are you sure you don't want to add in your location?', but when it's asking almost every single day, that is an annoyance and borderline stalking from them.

I use FB to talk with family that are in other states. I have no reason to put in my location nor my phone number. Social networks should never ask for such personal information.
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You are missing the point - I perfectly understand what you are saying. It is a service, not an entitlement or right to be on social networks. You are not the CEO or whomever decides the direction Facebook takes. If they want to ask you for your location, then they are free to do so. You do not dictate what Facebook decides to do with their service - their understanding of a social network is different to yours.

It's not even a matter of principle. You are using their service, for which you agreed to their terms of service. They can ask as much as they want, and if such a trivial and minor thing annoys you, then please kindly take a step back and evaluate your life.

Don't get me wrong, I don't provide my information because I don't want to, but it's really easy to ignore it.
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Easy to ignore it? You call being asked every single day to give them information easy to ignore? These websites actually do not have any right to ask for such personal information. We use a social network to communicate with friends, not find someone's phone number to harass them.

I can guarantee you someway, somehow, our phone numbers and location, no matter how private we try to make them, will be available to non FB staff. Telling me I shouldn't be bothered or that I just shouldn't use FB is not the correct answer. If I decide I do not want to give them said information, I should not have to say "No" every single day.

Even if I trusted FB enough to give them extremely sensitive information, that doesn't give them the right to harass me about it. I gave them a false state just to make them happy, but I'm not giving them my phone number. Are you trying to say because I refuse to do so it's my own fault for the harrassement? I'm sorry that you do not seem to grasp that FB is not just used by teenagers for selfies and crap. It's also used by adults to talk with out of state family. That is all I ever use FB for.

Where in their TOS does it say "we will bug the crap out of you until you give us the information we want?" Doesn't it come off as odd to you that FB is hell bent on getting this information? Why do you think that is? People are so gullible anymore. They think just because a site says "your information is safe" that it actually is.
 
Drago said:
Easy to ignore it? You call being asked every single day to give them information easy to ignore? These websites actually do not have any right to ask for such personal information. We use a social network to communicate with friends, not find someone's phone number to harass them.
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Yes, it is easy to ignore. Annoyance is subjective. Their Terms can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms I may not agree with all of them, but I choose to use their service. I have the option of giving them my personal details, but I have chosen not to.

Drago said:
I can guarantee you someway, somehow, our phone numbers and location, no matter how private we try to make them, will be available to non FB staff. Telling me I shouldn't be bothered or that I just shouldn't use FB is not the correct answer. If I decide I do not want to give them said information, I should not have to say "No" every single day.
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I don't really care what guarantees you can make. If you don't put up your personal information, then your information won't be accessed through legal means.

You are trying to argue from a position of principle, but you have no grounds because you chose to use their service. You are speaking as if it is your right to use Facebook and Facebook should operate how you see fit.

Drago said:
Even if I trusted FB enough to give them extremely sensitive information, that doesn't give them the right to harass me about it. I gave them a false state just to make them happy, but I'm not giving them my phone number. Are you trying to say because I refuse to do so it's my own fault for the harrassement? I'm sorry that you do not seem to grasp that FB is not just used by teenagers for selfies and crap. It's also used by adults to talk with out of state family. That is all I ever use FB for.
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I am not a teenager nor do I post "selfies and crap".

So let's say Facebook is harassing you (despite how subjective that is), what are you going to do about it? If someone was harassing you in person, you could go to the Police about it. If you genuinely believe that a service you chose to use is harassing you when you decide to use it, then do something about it. Go to the Police, start a class action law suit, write to the CEO, but please don't vent at another Forum Promotion user just because they see the resolution of the matter differently from you.

Drago said:
Where in their TOS does it say "we will bug the crap out of you until you give us the information we want?" Doesn't it come off as odd to you that FB is hell bent on getting this information? Why do you think that is? People are so gullible anymore. They think just because a site says "your information is safe" that it actually is.
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Well I haven't said any of that, so I can only assume you are asking it as a new question. So no, I don't find it odd that a non-government website is asking for our information. If you do find it odd, then that makes you gullible - you must assume, especially when you are online, that something dodgy is going on; that a website has ulterior motives. So in a juxtaposed sense, I do agree with you.

The ultimate fact is this: you are not compelled or obliged to use Facebook.
 
Facebook just wants you to 'complete' your profile so friends and such can find you easier. They suggest a few things for me to still enter like when I went on a trip or something so it can be detailed for memories and such. If you want, make up a city and it should stop. 🙂 And you can add a phone number and your city and choose to not share it with anyone but friends you already have or no one at all.
 
If you don't want to put the city you live in then put a city nearby. I've personally put both my city and my phone number into FB but I have my privacy settings pretty high. I think my city is set so that only friends can see it. I only let people who I've set as "good friends" and "family" (fb allows you to group friends differently) to see my phone number. Most of these people already have it anyways so it doesn't bother me. My phone has been on their for probably 4 years now and I haven't gotten any spam calls from it.

You can check out what information might be public about you by searching here if you want to see how much can be found out about you:
http://www.spokeo.com/
 
I closed down my Social Networking accounts ages ago, I don't trust them.
 
It really drives me crazy i mean i am making accounts to sale to people and all the verification thing and when i put a number to verify then it asks for image verification and when i do that i get blocked and i am unable to do anything on facebook, and not only that you dont know when your account will get unbanned and when and the contact system is not so good either.

You put your number and is like forcing you to put it if you want to be there...i mean i can understand if someone is putting wrong pictures and the copyright but they can't have everything and even if we brag about it nothing will change my friend....

Things that are not changing shouldn't bother with.
 
It's such a small detail that only presents itself when I view my own profile that it's easy to miss. Reason why I don't get bothered by it. If FB were to stop me from using my page because I fail to provide a location, I'd be annoyed but I'd also just use another service to communicate.

And, FB has our information whether we provide it or not. Fun fact for you.
 
The vast majority of my Facebook friends are people I know irl, and only a handful are people I've talked to online, but I've known them for long enough that I trust them with that sort of information.

I don't have my phone number on there though, and it's never really asked for that. .-. It does ask me to put in a job when I go to my profile, but it's kinda hard to do that when I've never held a job before in my life, and I don't go on my profile enough to care.
 
They way I see it, if I don't want to look at it, I can either ignore it by turning a blind eye, or just keep hitting the dismiss button.
 
Theres alot of apps now on phones and such that use your location whether you want it to or not.. its just a thing that everyone wants to do now so they know what kind of ads to feed you and such.. and sometimes spy on you. I personally could care less who knows where I live. You can easily follow me home from work or a store and find out anyway.. so whats the problem? I have nothing to hide, and unless I let you in my home then I don't see the issue..
 
Yeah, me too. The keep asking me for my personal information. Such as Postal Code and Phone number. Worst, I dont have a phone.
 
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