I really enjoy your posts. Thank you! Are you a local or a traveller?

Google the history of Facebook. It’s on the wiki. It’s in the film.

I think you’re jumping the gun a bit. They’re just saying that requiring a phone number added a barrier against spammers and they want to be sure this change doesn’t open the flood gates.

From the article:

"We gotta figure out some way to induce a cost for signing up without a phone number”, Kret said.

It’s unclear whether this means that registration without a phone number will become a paid feature.

However, “cost” does not necessarily mean a monetary fee; it could also refer to another barrier designed to prevent abuse.

I’ve noticed this sort if thing becoming more common and I think it is very much related to bots scraping the web. I’m sure they’ll be happy to sell access to that data though.

I really enjoyed this film. The whole thing was so tense! Instant classic in the horror genre. It feels like there’s been a bit of a renaissance over the last decade or so.