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Re:267M Facebook users IDs and phone numbers exposed online by Nextgrid on Friday December 20, 2019 @03:28AM (#21842513)
You can open a support ticket and they'll restore it and include a BS apology about how your account was supposedly a false-positive of their anti-abuse system (where in reality it's just a way to harvest phone numbers out of easily coercible victims).

However, the main question is: why would you ever give your time to such a toxic platform especially when it's explicitly working against you like in this case? Just move on and give them the finger.

Re:267M Facebook users IDs and phone numbers exposed online by saagarjha on Friday December 20, 2019 @03:37AM (#21842553)
> why would you ever give your time to such a toxic platform

Because a bunch of people you know are on the toxic platform.

Re:267M Facebook users IDs and phone numbers exposed online by nudq on Friday December 20, 2019 @04:25AM (#21842765)
A good idea if you want your personal relationships poisoned.
Re:267M Facebook users IDs and phone numbers exposed online by workthrowaway on Friday December 20, 2019 @06:50AM (#21843437)
> A good idea if you want your personal relationships poisoned.

not how it works for me! i have friends on fb that i haven't talked to or seen since high school. i don't use fb proper but it's good to know that it remembers everyone so i don't have to. i guess it goes the other around as well.

Re:267M Facebook users IDs and phone numbers exposed online by bilekas on Friday December 20, 2019 @07:27AM (#21843626)
> it's good to know that it remembers everyone so i don't have to

There is something wrong with this for me.. If you don't remember people, are they really worth kepeing around ?

It is a great way to reach someone you want to get in touch with after a really long time, but that scenario is far more rare than people claim when they speak of the 'magic of facebook'.

Re:267M Facebook users IDs and phone numbers exposed online by hombre_fatal on Friday December 20, 2019 @09:12AM (#21844212)
> If you don't remember people, are they really worth kepeing around

How in the world are you ever going to know if you never contact them again?

Re:267M Facebook users IDs and phone numbers exposed online by bilekas on Friday December 20, 2019 @12:22PM (#21845725)
:) I guess I just keep a select group of friends that I want to be with. What I don't know wont kill me and all that, but fair enough. Each to their own !
Re:267M Facebook users IDs and phone numbers exposed online by huyqut on Friday December 20, 2019 @09:48AM (#21844517)
It's not that rare. I met some friends in middle school about 10 years ago. When I move to the US, FB is the place to connect them again because we keep FB connections. A lit of people around is also in the same situation. Like the above comment, you never know.
Re:267M Facebook users IDs and phone numbers exposed online by saiya-jin on Friday December 20, 2019 @04:08AM (#21842683)
Doesn't make it a less toxic place in any meaning. If somebody is such a diva they have an active presence on Twitter, there are almost always other means to connect.
Re:267M Facebook users IDs and phone numbers exposed online by collyw on Friday December 20, 2019 @04:17AM (#21842725)
When the Guardian closes its own comments section (usually when they are heavily pushing opinion without evidence) you can usually comment on Twitter.
Re:267M Facebook users IDs and phone numbers exposed online by doublerabbit on Friday December 20, 2019 @02:39PM (#21846788)
> why would you ever give your time to such a toxic platform

Did you ask this back in 2008?

As someone who was ridiculed, outcasted and made fun at uni for not using social media because I didn’t want to submit my data online, it’s finally nice to find people are actually starting to realise this; just twelve years too late.

Re:267M Facebook users IDs and phone numbers exposed online by Nextgrid on Friday December 20, 2019 @08:16PM (#21848885)
I agree, it’s a choice where you feel the consequences pretty much every day when it comes to Facebook or Instagram.

But Twitter? Pretty much nobody uses it for day-to-day communication, so you can opt-out with no consequences.