Facebook’s Safety Check is a stress-inducing flip of social norms

Re:Facebook’s Safety Check is a stress-inducing flip of soci... by duncan_bayne on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @11:02PM (#14557619)

I'm busy shutting down a throwaway FB account that I used to sign up to Spotify back in the day.

They don't make it easy.

The process, according to Spotify support, is:

+ Create a new Spotify account

+ Contact Spotify support to migrate playlists etc. across.

+ Cancel my paid subscription on the old account.

+ Create a new paid subscription on the new account.

+ Migrate my family members onto the new account.

This is reminiscent of Microsoft's strategies back in the 90s, to make it incredibly difficult to ship a PC w/o DOS (and later, Windows).

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Re:Facebook’s Safety Check is a stress-inducing flip of soci... by jbigelow76 on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @11:08PM (#14557647)

Was there a time, and if so was this throwaway FB account part of it, when you could only sign up to Spotify with a FB account? I was a paying member of Spotify for about two years and my account wasn't tied to FB but Spotify had already been around for a few years prior.

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Re:Facebook’s Safety Check is a stress-inducing flip of soci... by intoverflow2 on Thursday June 15, 2017 @06:09AM (#14559083)

> Was there a time, and if so was this throwaway FB account part of it, when you could only sign up to Spotify with a FB account?

Yes from the early beta Spotify had it's own account system, then it switched to all new accounts must be FB but legacy accounts could still sign in. This was a while ago though around the time I stopped using it.

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Re:Facebook’s Safety Check is a stress-inducing flip of soci... by duncan_bayne on Thursday June 15, 2017 @02:42AM (#14558379)

I'm unsure - I think there was, based on forum chatter. Certainly if there was another way to sign up when I did, I was unaware of it.

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