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Add friends without facebook

Why am I forced to use facebook in order to add friends to Waze?? I don't use facebook, 75% of the world's population does not use facebook at all (and more with every day). Is keeping fb afloat Waze's most important purpose?
Anyway, I don't want facebook friends on Waze, I want Waze friends on Waze and facebook friends on facebook, don't try to mix a driving app with a social network.

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I used to use Waze over EVERY navigation map and thought the sharing your driving location was genius. What I find not-so-genius is FORCING people to use Facebook to add friends. I'm back at Google and it looks like a lot of other customers. I have people I do not share my Facebook app with, but will share my driving times and locations, I am sure a lot of people will do that for work, and even more people I have on Facebook that I NEVER want to share navigation information, or even know if I am driving, when where, or any information. This should have been a suggestion not a requirement.
    For the rest of you sharing your location on other apps is usually easy and you can usually share with anyone and not be forced to join some 3rd party app. Bye Waze. I guess Google bought you to kill the competition, since they now have added things we liked about Waze, and Waze now has things people do not like.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I choose not to mix Facebook and Waze. My waze friends list disappeared years ago, so this has been a ongoing issue, that waze doesn't seem to be concerned about. Now days I am leaning towards using, removing Waze from my phone and moving to Google maps.

  • David commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I don't use facebook. I immediately uninstall any app that forces me to connect with facebook.
    I just looked at Google Maps and I can share locations by simply creating a link and sharing it. You can adjust how long it will share your location also.

  • TKbiker commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is a shame on Waze!!! I do not want to give FB any access to my contacts and vice versa. Are there any other apps that can do what we loved about Waze?? Please share other better options if anyone know of any.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Is this ever going to change? Hard to believe that Google, who owns Waze, is supporting FB. Maybe because RIP Google ±. Cmon Google, get your stuff together.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Waze friends ONLY from facebook?!!!!
    This is like saying you are only allowed to invite your work colleagues to your bachelor party!!!

    here would be no point in a "suggestion box" if you don't hear what your users want Waze...
    Hoping to hear some good news on this soon!

  • Ivaylo Essenov commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    It is ridiculous a Google application to use Facebook authentication instead of Google authentication!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    It’s insulting and manipulative to force your faithful users to connect to a specific social media platform in order to use one of the major features of your app. Change this or I will join 1000s of others and move to the competition.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I’m not understanding why Waze won’t respond to all these comments. I just started using waze but I won’t anymore unless they change this nonsense about having to use Facebook.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Screw Google, the real reason they changed this is for ADVERTISING dollars plain and simple. Facebook has the most advanced spying algorithms to make a nice personal profile of you and bombard you with advertisements. that's the real money people. As of today after 3 years app is getting uninstalled and all of my friends and family I have gotten to use it are going to erase it too.

  • KimD commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I do not use FB because I feel it invades my privacy. Why would I want hundreds of people to be able to track where I am every time I use the app? It should be able to be used with a small amount of friends who I trust and want to know where I am. Please fix this. FB isn't the answer.

  • Senorhondo commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Don’t want to link Facebook to waze. Simply want to be able to navigate to a friends house via the app. I can do it in google maps, so why no waze. Please fux

  • Irked commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Got a new phone, tried using restore password to no avail. Waze basically forced me to create a new account, through Facebook. Now I have lost the ability to connect to any of my phone contacts, plus I lost 3 years worth of my user account. This is ridiculous - allow us to use our phone contacts to find friends. I am NOT connecting my driving habits to Facebook for reasons that should surprise no rational software design team!

  • Peter commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    facebook is an abomination. I do not use it. Get Waze to access my contacts without FB

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Non sense such linking between two differentiated services.
    Nevertheless, give the chance those to link whatever they want.

    NOT ME!.!

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