Facebook wants to kill the phone number in 2016
Found on CNet on Friday, 08 January 2016
Facebook's aggression, though, is aimed hard at the enemy of all that is Facebook: the phone number. In a paragraph headlined "The Disappearance Of The Phone Number," Marcus sniffs at flip phones and suggests mere texting is also the activity of the backward.
It's all very well the company wanting to be the de facto Internet -- especially in places like India. But drier minds and eyes might wonder whether the wish to eradicate phone numbers has something to do with not everyone having yet given Facebook their phone numbers.
Yeah, sure. Marcus must have smoked some serious drugs there. You can still do fine without Facebook and there is no reason to feed it even more data than people already do. With voice recognition getting pretty good, it's a piece of cake for them to keep an ear on your conversations too; something nobody could really want. Plus, with the decline of younger users, you wonder for how much longer this network can exist. Your phone number has existed for longer, and will exist when parents tell their kids stories about the old times where antisocial networks existed.