This just drives me nuts: I go to a popular video sharing website to make my own account and am told I can’t give an e-mail address for a verification code, I have to give my cell phone number. Are you kidding me? So I go to the FAQ’s and “what if I dont have a cell phone?” is there, and their answer is “find someone who has one.”

Well you know what? Not everyone has a cell phone! Not everyone WANTS a cell phone either and I think it’s disgusting to assume that everyone has one. Now, I’m aware this site is viewed by millions more people than NS has living in it, but not everywhere in NS has cell phone service yet, and I’m sure as hell it’s the same in other provinces/areas in the states too.

So WHY do companies/corporations/people have to do this to us? I don’t have a cell phone and I’m not going to ask a friend to have their number out in cyberspace just to get a fuckin verification code. I hate this technology shit. Lets go back to smoke signals and singing around the fire. THAT is communication. —ASSUMING makes an ASS out of U and ME

This article appears in Jan 20-26, 2011.

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  2. You don’t have oer want a cel phone.
    Good for you.
    THe site your trying to access is a private site… you know…someone owns it.
    They own it & they make the rules, it may suck but IMO its right. Big Brother has already encroached to far into peoples lives & any business owner should have rights to run their business as they see fit, especially if they aren’t harming anyone.

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  4. Ya know! I only use prepayed credit cards, but the three times I tried to use them online in the past few weeks, I couldn’t. I don’t get it. Service is geared toward people who spend money they don’t have? instead of people who have the money for sure? No wonder the economic world is crashing and burning.

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  5. I’d be more concerned about them asking for any phone number in the first place. You shouldn’t need to give out a cell number or a home number to make an account on a website. As as a rule you shouldn’t give out any phone number, cell or otherwise over the net unless it’s a credible company that you can track down. It’s understandable if you’re ordering something online or setting up online banking, even then you still have to be careful with your information. But just to set up an account on a video sharing site? Sounds fishy to me. I’d steer clear.

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  8. Having lived most of my life without a cellphone leash, I am quite content to continue that way, thanks. I agree with Snoop – there’s something sketchy about asking for your cellphone number rather than an e-mail address – I suspect it just gets added to a call list that will be sold to major telemarketers for mega bucks.

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  9. After reading the other posts to this thread, I had an idea.
    Any of you know the phone number of someone… of someone you don’t care all that much for ?
    Well then, now you’ve got a phone number that you really don’t care if it gets added to a telemarketer’s list , do you ~;)

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  11. and if they txt you the auto-generated password and confirmation for the site…
    you’ve just set up an account on someone else’s behalf that you can’t access.

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  12. there are a number of sites that send me mail for all kinds of free shit. i check them out, cool shit, and proceed to fill in info. when it comes to last page, they want a fucking cel number.
    if this was stated up front, then i would not have wasted one second longer to delete it. there is too much of this bullshit going on, and hey, it’s not just the web either.
    i was at a place last year, applied to the instore contest, and was told, that i had to have a fucking cel phone, or i could not enter said contest. what the fuck is up with that shit.
    one of these days, i’m gonna get another one, but it will do one thing only, make fucking calls. went to aliant about 6 months ago, they tried to con me into this bullshit deal with texting and all that crap. told them that texting was just plain stupid, when i could call and actually talk to person i wanted to get hold of. was told that if they did not answer, then i could send message, no, i will call back later. what a fucking load of bullshit they try to get you into. fuck them all. i do enough texting here, on this fucking computer.

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  13. Ditto on melectric. They will use the number to bombard you with marketing ploys and make a lot of money selling that number to 3rd party companies. Rent local, support locally.

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  14. zZz well, I’m shit out of luck then…I have bunch of text messages on my phone now that I have not opened, nor will I !

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  20. No one cares about the videos you way to share anyways. You don’t have a cellphone, ergo you are not that important that the rest of the world needs to see your lame home videos.

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  23. HAHA OH that’s right.

    …wait a second…

    …wasn’t Full House TOTALLY a chick show?

    You surprise me every day, zed 😉

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  24. maybe it WAS… watching it now is hilarious…
    As is the golden girls from what I’m told.

    so many bad shows… so little time.

    I want to see if I can get the series of Viper.
    now there was a kick ass, horrible show.

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  27. perhaps a golden girls themed ‘party’ next week then? ? ?
    for some perhaps convenient reason…

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  38. No no, she was just going for an ultrasound on Monday to find out the sex. Not actually having the baby. ha ha. 😀

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  41. Bea Arthur? paingirl…hmm…not what I pictured at all. I thought more like Holly Hobby meets e.e. cummings meets James Herriot = )

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  42. painy, i imagined you as a hobbit, but i could be wrong. and i say chicky’s lil one will be a girl, in at about 7 pounds, 3 ounces. any other guesses??????

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  43. I think she will have a girl too.

    A hobbit, LS?! You mean the very short, stocky, pointed-eared creatures with large, leathery curly-haired feet?

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  44. Hobbit? PG? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA! (ahem) I mean– yes she is small and furry with large hairy feet. But one that looks like Bea Arthur.

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  45. Maybe it’s more her personality? So sweet natured and wholesome? (except for a FEW misleading links posted:D)

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  46. A bitcher is never late, BreadLady. Nor is (s)he early. (S)He arrives precisely when (s)he means to.

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  54. marsies is no troll. i have a good idea who it might be. the name that should never be spoken, or the ex. and painy, i take the hobbit thing back, you are the best of the best catwoman, emma peele, batgirl, ellie may clampett, and daisy duke, all rolled into one. am i forgiven??

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  57. Ivan’s closer…. think the figurehead on said majestic vessel… except looking like Beat Arthur.

    Aw PG, hope you’re alright hon… 🙁

    Feel better 😀

    P.S.: Admiral that pic has all sorts of Horatio Hornblower tales running through my head.

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  61. Hey, they weren’t oscar worthy, but they were fun! And Ioan would have done better to stay there and not jump into Fan 4.

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  65. I also was asked for a cel phone number when I signed up to be a “club member” for a certain retail store. I kept telling them I didn’t have one then I started getting e-mails saying my cell phone number hadn’t been filled in yet and I needed one to get “full member benefits” which are offeres that also can be found on their website and by e-mail.

    I entered their own store phone number and now it seems, we’re good. No more harassing me for a number and I can only assume they are spamming themselves.

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