“Sign up with Facebook”, what if you don’t have a Facebook account?
I have FB and I NEVER sign in or sign up w/ my FB account. If there’s no other option I figure I don’t need whatever it is that badly. I enjoy FB, but I limit the info I put out there as much as possible.
Then don’t sign up with it.
I’d suggest that only the sketchiest of websites have facebook sign in as the only option. But yes, any such website would not be usable by non-facebook users.
QFT - the dirty little secret about this option is that FB then shares your info & activity as it would with a friend.
Not something I care to do with just any old site on the Internet.
If you don’t have an FB account you create an account on the site just as with any place. The use of FB is only for the convenience of not having to enter in all your information for 12,674th time.
Or you could create a second FB account as a disposable one. Create it and never log in again. Use your imaginary childhood friend or something. Just like having an extra email for the spam sites that require some type of email.
Then come and start a thread here asking why, after creating a fake facebook account with a made up name and junk email address, did FB immediately show you all your IRL friends and tell you they are “people you may know”.
Moderator Note
Please don’t post useless answers like these in GQ, especially as a first response. If you can’t help the OP with his question, there is no need to respond.
Colibri
General Questions Moderator
Like Joey P said – Years ago I signed up for Facebook with a phony name and a freshly made, never used gmail account. The next day it was showing me pictures of my sister’s friends who lived two thousand miles away and pictures of her son’s girlfriends whom I had never met. Creeped me out and I have never gone back.
Except you need to provide a mobile #; they send you a text confirmation that you need to enter; like two-factor authentication. Therefore, you need to enter a mobile # that you really do have access to. One could buy a burner phone, but this costs money.
Has that always been the case? I don’t recall using a cell number the first time I set up my account and I’m fairly certain when I set up a fake account years ago for some reason I didn’t use my cell number (or I wouldn’t have bothered). When I set up that fake account, if I had used my cell phone number I wouldn’t have been surprised that FB new who some of my IRL friends were since I know it raids (with permission) people’s phone books.
I have to disagree, if the only way to log into a website is with a facebook account and you don’t have a facebook account then not using that website is hardly a useless answer when asking what your options are. Those first two replies weren’t jokes or snarky answers. If you don’t have a facebook account your options are get a facebook account (however you choose to do that) or don’t use the website. I’m not sure I understand why you deemed one of the options ‘useless’ and gave two posters notes over it.
It’s like someone asking how to get through a locked door without a key. It’s hardly useless to tell them that without a key, they’re not getting through the door.
There are times when the best response to “How do I?” is “Don’t!” Further, saying that if FB is the only way to sign in then you can’t sign in without FB isn’t snark. It’s a statement of fact.
Back To The OP
I agree with what’s been said. My FaceBook account has my real name and connects me to my family. I cannot think why a web site would need that information.
The reason websites like to use Facebook Login is because it’s thought that a reason people are hesitant to sign up for websites is that it’s yet another account signup the user has to go through and remember, and it also relieves the website of having to maintain their own authentication system.
The amount of information the website receives depends on what it requests. It’s not true that the website automatically gets access to your friends list or activity feed. The only information always accessible is your public profile. This is the list of permissions a Facebook Login using app or website can request.
In all cases, Facebook shows what permissions the website is requesting and lets you review the information being requested and approve or deny it before proceeding, or revoke access at a later time.
I also disagree with the warning
Nitpick, and also probably should be in ATMB, but it wasn’t a warning, it was a mod note and has no impact on the posters’ records.
Dating sites such as Tinder have FB sign-in as the only option.
USA Today uses Facebook for comments. You may not consider it a worthwhile site, but I don’t know if it fits your definition of “sketchy”.
Well, not only for that. It also gives FB more information about your interests and online activities which they can exploit for commercial purposes.
In fact, from FB’s point of view, that’s what it’s mainly for. The convenience to you is just a handy selling point.
I created a completly fake account on Facebook that does all my signing in to websites. I access my real Facebook account from another browser, and haven’t had any problems with the fake.
That’s hardly the point. It’s like if the teacher said “Johnny, please stop making all that noise” and I stood up for him by saying “um, teacher, he just sneezed, that’s all”. You’re right, he didn’t get in trouble, but he also didn’t do anything wrong and as it stands he runs the risk of getting a detention if he sneezes again.
In this case, no one got in trouble, but the next person to suggest not using a website with a facebook login runs the risk of actually getting a login. That’s the problem. Either I don’t understand the note or Colibri doesn’t understand how those sites work.
Didja look at those permissions? There’s zero reason for any website to have all that information about you just because you want to log in. As Ambi mentioned Tinder (and it’s sister Bumble) use only facebook and don’t give the ability to pick and choose which permission you can deny. I can’t speak for other sites or apps since I’ve never used them, but those two are legit.
Where you went to high school, what songs you’ve listened to, news articles you’ve read, fitness activity…then there’s the normal stuff, like access to all the pictures tagged in and groups, movies and bands you like. Yeah, because “here, just log in with facebook so you don’t have to make another username” is a good reason to give up all that information.