Comments on: Why Facebook wants you to enter your birthday information

By: John

John — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 23:50:47 +0000

last time i faked a birthdate then it was required later on and i couldnt remember the fake bd,,,,,,,its all security, big brother stuff, the coming of the age, where RFID’s will track you everywhere, which in alot of emergency situations thats a good thing to be tracked, cant wait till you can vote from home, BUT, i take that back too, good to meet to ole township neighbors and politicians, can you tell i’m getting a little older this year!i must be settling in my ways

By: Meg

Meg — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:26:26 +0000

Silly sausages! it’s not about being paranoid about sharing the day you were born it’s all about the combination of the day month AND YEAR partnered with your name! think about ordering stuff online?? your bank has set up a security password and if you have forgotten it you have to enter your BIRTH DATE!! To change the password!

now i know a lot of people have private profiles but some members of Facebook who are not as technology aware don’t have their birth dates set to private…. a person steals your card, looks you up on Facebook, records your birthday and away they go- YES they usually always get caught because of the delivery address but it’s still not a good position to be in!

By: Rhiannon

Rhiannon — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 20:17:07 +0000

seriously….I would not at all be surprised if Facebook was selling its lists of Users to third-parties (such as bill collectors, private investigators, etc.)….good money to be made there……you take a name like Robert Jones…its VERY common…but…you add a birth-date to that name…..Bingo….you have a VERY identifiable feature that makes it much easier to search and distinguish person to person…….Robert Jones is a very common name but add the birth date (this is fictitious by the way, just for an example here) of March 31, 1979 to that and you are have something much more.
I would suspect THAT is why Facebook wants your information. They hate it btw when you change your birthday.

By: rachel wagner

rachel wagner — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 02:31:56 +0000

i hate facebook. they will not let me reactivate my account. went from fake birthdate to protect my identity and gave real one now to get my account back. They wont do it. I SO AGAINST FACEBOOK. WE NEED A NEW SOCIAL NETWORK THAT IS FRIENDLY.

By: SuzyGS

SuzyGS — Sat, 14 May 2011 03:44:21 +0000

Facebook – liars! I have my birth year listed but not published. They say they do not use the information, so why do I get AARP ads and other senior-related ads? I turned 50 last year. I don’t like targeted ads, especially ones that remind me I’m getting older.

By: sun

sun — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 07:55:16 +0000

wow…what is so special about birthday? Birthday is not even anything unique. You know there are gazillion other people that share the same day you were born.

Sorry but it Seems like meaningless paranoia.

By: nicole

nicole — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 06:20:24 +0000

what i don’t get is its my sister’s birthday, her 13th birthday and she’s considered inelligable for facebook… what the hell?!

By: Ethan

Ethan — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 03:58:40 +0000

For those that don’t think identity theft is an issue on Facebook or other sites requesting birthdate or other info. read the article below. People are cobbling together info. from searches, on FB and other sites including your own posts. Remember what you said 3 years ago is still posted out there or what someone else said. Even if you don’t list your date of birth friend’s often post birthday messages on your birthday and ask "how’s it feel to be " x age " making it pretty easy to figure things out.

Think that’s too far fetched? Read this:
Facebook Still a Hotbed of Identity Theft, Study Claims
http://www.pcworld.com/article/184522/facebook_still_a_hotbed_of_identity_theft_study_claims.html

By: Rex

Rex — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:12:51 +0000

Giving out your real birth date along with your real name is about as idiotic as giving out your bank account number (it’s against Facebook policy to use "fake" name… – and if they find out, it WILL – result in Facebook closing down your account!).
As far as fake birthday is concerned – I have just learned that Facebook has a very crafty way to keep an eye on that also: having an account for couple of months, I decided to change my birth date a few days ago (for no particular reason – I just happen to wander in "my profile" and thought that I don’t like the one (fake) I gave them initially. Sort of absentmindedly I have typed in first date that came to my mind (and it happened to be the year 2000) and the system has notified me that I cannot have an account unless I am at least 13 years old. I thought: OK, and changed that date to something like 1919 (just thinking it was funny) on which the system told me that the date has to be a "real one" (why the f.ck couldn’t I be an old person using a Facebook?) and basically didn’t allow me to proceed, so I wanted to put some "normal" date in and they notified me that birth date can only be changed from "under aged" to adult or vice versa once and they closed my account down! As it happens, I was about to exit Facebook anyway, so I don’t give a damn, but if you "value" your account there, you better be aware of this!

By: passerby

passerby — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:07:11 +0000

i dont think so, the fact is they request your birthdate cos the facebook is an intelligence security centre collects info about all based on specific ideas .. no ads, no rules, no nothing ..