Comments on: For My Security, Facebook Demands My Birthday Then Blocks Me From My Account

By: Ahmed Yusuf

Ahmed Yusuf — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 20:15:22 +0000

when i Loging to may facebook account, they ask me may birhday for security and Im not sure the exact time i entered, how can I loging may facebook without asking me secerity process?

By: Danny Sullivan

Danny Sullivan — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:23:05 +0000

Joyce, you need to contact Facebook about that. I think you’re required to give them your birthday, but you don’t have to display it publicly, I believe.

By: Joyce Edgerton

Joyce Edgerton — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 01:34:35 +0000

Please remove my Birthday from facebook

By: z_pooh

z_pooh — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 17:39:52 +0000

This is what my profile said, and I am wondering why.

Sorry, your account is temporarily unavailable. Please log in to http://www.facebook.com from your computer and follow the instructions given.

What does that mean, I can fix this istantly, but I want to know how did this occur?

By: ldii

ldii — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:10:03 +0000

I don’t get any advantage from FB except as a tool for chatting.

By: djb

djb — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:03:47 +0000

I’ve deleted my FB account. They can go screw themselves. It’s worth noting that the Canadian Privacy Commissioner is investigating them AGAIN for breaching Canadian privacy legislation.

By: Nina Anthony

Nina Anthony — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:46:53 +0000

I had read somewhere that posting one’s birthday on Facebook exposed
personal information that could be used by financial fraudsters to help impersonate you to one’s bank, credit card company, email provider, etc. Not sure if that’s really true, but I’d prefer showing my birthday (especially the year) to as few people as possible.

Facebook continues to get worse with every so-called improvement. I really hate the new FB privacy settings. I’m particularly annoyed at how they no longer give users control over what is visible on their wall: from every new connection made to every comment on a photo. I waste a lot of time going back and deleting them…

By: Daredd

Daredd — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:35:28 +0000

I had this go on a while back myself. I finally gave in and in a few short weeks, up came advertising that was very “age specific” .. nearly to the day.

It’s all about the money my friend .. Security has absolutely nothing to do with it, unless, of course, you can count securing ad profits.

Since that time, I’ve been resolved to just allowing a posted page concerning my business site ..deleted all of every friend and links, and tightened the screws on the privacy settings .. I may, or may not, just be rid of that one page in the end too, I don’t know.

Facebook just sort of blew it when they tried to market to me according to how old I was.

By: John Sullivan

John Sullivan — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:15:20 +0000

I just came from your FB info page so when your back on approve that friend request Also that’s a pretty wild comment msg. I have found that my blog is doing well with a wide open do follow comment and no I don’t approve any spam but hey DO FOLLOW is doing great by me and all my friends site. In fact I hope to get a PR 6 next round.Anway just wanted to stop by like I do every once in a while to see what’s popping sorry about your Facebook acct you can have mine if you want LOL Facebook is over rated and practically useless. I’m working on a site that dropped 700k on Alexa in one month I’m on my way 2010 is it

By: John

John — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:02:45 +0000

I can go one better, Facebook won’t even let me setup my account!!