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They keep asking for the damn phone number, So give them a fake one.

Facebook and others like Email providers have recently been asking for my phone number. Repeatedly. Annoyingly. With no way to turn it off. (The Clowns)

So, I will just give a fake number from now on. I will use the 555 prefix that cannot actually be called if possible. But I ain't gonna take it no more.

They make us all liars with such ease. Yuck!
-- popbottle, Jul 07 2015

Uhh, pretty much everyone already does this. You didn't really think I live at 111 A St., A, Afghanistan?
-- ytk, Jul 07 2015


Sigh! Why am I always the last to find out ? Next thing they will be saying is the cigarettes are bad for your health or somthin.
-- popbottle, Jul 07 2015


Hey, [ytk], I had a pen-friend who lived near there? Perhaps you knew him? He was called Joe Bloggs.
-- pocmloc, Jul 07 2015


[ytk] - Did you move from 123, Fake St.?
-- hippo, Jul 07 2015


1001 Carpet Strip, Linoleum City, Oxterville.
-- xenzag, Jul 07 2015


Two factor authentication is worthwhile practice.

Using a fake phone number is widely known to exist.
-- tatterdemalion, Jul 07 2015


Thing is, sooner or later Facebook will start making automated calls to confirm the number. That will be lovely.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Jul 07 2015


I want 666-666-6666 The devils spawn I am. Beware facebook or I'll delete my account. Hahahaha!
-- blissmiss, Jul 07 2015


Facebook and all the others will soon find ways around this problem of fake contact details. Why not just give them [8th]'s details like I do?
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Jul 07 2015


Don't you know? 8th is Facebook, version 3.0, simply pushed forward into time.

Resistance is futile.
-- RayfordSteele, Jul 07 2015


So you use Facebook?

Why would one need to use it at all?
-- Inyuki, Jul 09 2015


for the baby pictures. but I fooled them I put up all fake baby pictures. of fake babies.
-- dentworth, Jul 10 2015



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