Facebook’s New (Evil) Plan to Grab New Users (opens in new tab)

This article is kind of only half-thought through. Facebook is making contact to the user on behalf of this person that claims to be 'advancetehri', it is not a 'cold' invite by Facebook. This user 'advancetehri' used the invite a user feature and put this person's number in.

Evil plan to grab new users? No.

I feel like a vast majority of people take every single chance they get to argue that Facebook is out to get them.

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As of the FB app on my iPhone, when I wanted to connect it with my phones data (to get extra phone numbers of my friends, and see their profile pics), I was asked to agree that the app can upload the data to FB and let them use it whatever way they want to. (Read: all the phone numbers in my phone, not in the FB app.) That really blew my mind. I didn't agree, but if 500 people have your phone number in their phones, the chance that none of them agrees is zero.

Needless to say, but this would be illegal in the European Union. Unsolicited text messages and all that. If this is true, facebook should be very careful about doing it in EU.

They are looking a for a positive spin they can give to wall-street. If they release new stats on user growth still exploding to wall-street, that might reduce the hammering of their stocks. Sheer desperation as tough times call for desperate measures.

And they weren't able to send me my security verification number via sms until I sent them my ID.

Cool that it works when THEY need it.