Do You Need A Phone Number For Every Thing?

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I wrote a post earlier that I had joined a writing site that requested your phone number. They "supposedly" call you when you cash out. I also have some freebie sites that will email of freebies that companies are offering and some of those offers, also ask for a phone number. The recent experience with needing a phone number is bing rewards aka microsoft rewards. When you redeem your points now you have to give a phone number so that you can send a code to your phone to use to redeem your points. They said some thing about they use this method because emails aren't always secure. Since my husband has the only "working" phone number, I really didn't want to use it as he takes it to work with him and even though it's his personal phone he uses it for work. So, since he had his days off, I just used his phone number and got the code. Now I wonder how many "unknown" calls he'll be getting since I had to use his phone to get my code to get my Amazon credit? He recently had to change his number as he was getting bombarded with calls from people we didn't know, including the scam calls!! Don't these companies know that people can get your phone number too??? ~Peace~ photo courtesy of pixabay