Facebook, their "real name" policy, and their ban policy when combined with hardware like Oculus seem like a series of really bad product decisions. Like with combining messengers between Instagram and Facebook, the business reason is probably to make Oculus harder to split off in the event of anti-trust action. Pretty gross.
I recently discovered a similar thing with Twitter: when you sign up with e-mail, they block your account and will unblock it only if you give them your phone number.
Facebook, their "real name" policy, and their ban policy when combined with hardware like Oculus seem like a series of really bad product decisions. Like with combining messengers between Instagram and Facebook, the business reason is probably to make Oculus harder to split off in the event of anti-trust action. Pretty gross.
I recently discovered a similar thing with Twitter: when you sign up with e-mail, they block your account and will unblock it only if you give them your phone number.
You mean the same Twitter that was leaking people's phone numbers earlier this year?
Get a VoIP number solely for using as a social media platform validator. Never use your actual mobile number
Google banned one of my accounts after 6 months - most likely reason (with Google no support you could ask) was not using my real phone number...
Lost access to all info within the account, and other things also. Why not just prevent signup in the first place?!?!
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Unfortunately, an increasing number of providers are prohibiting VoIP numbers
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Yes, but can you somehow easily get a temporary number? Like those 10 minute email boxes?