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Re:Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affec... by haswell on Thursday April 08, 2021 @09:55AM (#26738698)
Kids are more likely to text, less likely to email these days. I can understand why they’d use SMS for their target demographic.

That doesn’t justify the security implications of doing this...

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Re:Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affec... by SketchySeaBeast on Thursday April 08, 2021 @10:04AM (#26738785)
Do kids still text or is that a generation or two removed from the current iMessages/WhatsApp/Signal/WhateverComesAfterSignalBecauseImOldAndDontKnow?
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Re:Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affec... by haswell on Thursday April 08, 2021 @10:31AM (#26739159)
I'm sure they'd prefer to receive notifications from their university on WhateverComesAfterSignalBecauseImOldAndDontKnow, but I imagine that SMS is the 2nd best thing (and probably still generates eye-rolling about the university being old fashioned).
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Re:Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affec... by SketchySeaBeast on Thursday April 08, 2021 @11:09AM (#26739768)
But then you're stuck logging into the payment portal and filling out the form information with your phone, which is my own personal hell.
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Re:Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affec... by haswell on Thursday April 08, 2021 @03:45PM (#26742899)
Oh, I'm with you. I'd much prefer to pull this up on a real computer so I can efficiently fill things in. I've adapted to typing on glass with my thumbs, but I'm not very good at it.
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