Gmail Registration Now Requires Cell Phone

[Irock]

I was going to create another Gmail account today for an irrelevant reason.

I fill out the long page of information that you usually fill out to create your account. Name, username, password, secondary email, security question, captcha, and the rest of the nonsense. I click the "Create my account" button, and I'm greeted by this horrendous message.



I have a working cell phone with a plan, but it isn't charged. I lost my charger a week ago, during a moving process. This is rather inconvenient.

If you don't have a cell phone, they suggest you use a friend's. There are flaws in this.

- A cell phone can only be used once to register an account. The person who let you use their phone will never be able to create a Gmail account.

- If you don't have a cell phone, you probably don't have friends.

- If you don't have friends, you can't use their cell phone.

- If you don't have a cell phone, you can't sign up for Gmail.

This is obviously bullshit. Roph can't sign up for Gmail because he doesn't have a cell phone plan. I'm sure Google's Gmail account creation is going to drop. Even if you do have a charged, working cell phone with a plan, it's just another annoying step. You can easily just sign up for another email service.

I hope Google dies.

[Nightwolf]

Find the charger?

[Irock]

It's not about me not knowing where the charger is. I already signed up another account elsewhere. It's about this being a dumb things for Google to do.

[Holkeye]

If you don't have a cell phone these days, you deserve to not have email.

[Irock]

Roph doesn't have a cell phone plan. Not everyone needs a cell phone. Some can't afford it.

[Sophist]

Not everyone needs a cell phone.

[haloOfTheSun]

Cell phones are stupid and Anski is stupid for thinking you have to have one.

[Sophist]

Anski is stupid for thinking you have to have one.

That's not what I'm thinking at all.

[:)]

if ( $author == 'irock')
{
   echo 'kiss roph's ass';
}

[Moss.]

INTERNET PEOPLE DUMB
ME SMART
I WIN

[Irock]

Cell phones are stupid and Anski is stupid for thinking you have to have one.

Halo come back ._.

[tSwitch]

if ( $author == 'irock')
{
   echo 'kiss roph's ass';
}

shouldn't those be double quotes?
as in

Code Select Expand


if ($author == "irock") { echo "Kiss Roph's Ass"; }


[:)]

NO >:|
it was supposed to be roph\'s

[Irock]

Yeah, I'm kissing Roph's ass by using him as an example of someone who doesn't have a cell phone plan. I develop a strong love for people when they do that for me. ;v

[Roph]

I don't have a mobile plan? I've always had one. There's a difference between not having one and not using one.

And it should stay, it stops spammers registering alot of accounts 

[Irock]

I don't understand why you'd pay for something you don't use. q_q

[Kokowam]

And it should stay, it stops spammers registering alot of accounts  

Just use guerrillamail if you're in need for a quick verification/e-mail for w/e >_> Quoted for agreement.

[Roph]

Because I don't have to pay anything if I don't use it. It's not a fucked up system like it is in the US (paying to RECEIVE texts and calls in some cases? LOL)

[:)]

Because I don't have to pay anything if I don't use it. It's not a fucked up system like it is in the US (paying to RECEIVE texts and calls in some cases? LOL)

:O
lucky bitch.

[Moss.]

Because I don't have to pay anything if I don't use it. It's not a fucked up system like it is in the US (paying to RECEIVE texts and calls in some cases? LOL)

Probably because the costs are cut in half?

[chewey]

This new registration system really annoys me since I don't have a mobile phone

and I don't plan on ever getting one.

[Moss.]

Honestly, though, you probably should have gotten a gmail account 5 years ago when they started the service up, like I did.
What took you so damn long?

edit: Oh. Another one. Why are you making another one? For your alternate ego on youtube? lol

[Irock]

edit: Oh. Another one. Why are you making another one? For your alternate ego on youtube? lol

Yes.

[ahref]

soon your social security number will be needed

[Irock]

People will be given a Google ID when they're born.