I just joined Waze because my sister raves about it and will now be removing my account upon learning that Facebook has to be a part of this. That took all of 15 minutes today...join and delete.
Get smart Waze and listen to the many many people that are not happy with you now. I hope that you get in trouble for crossing some privacy line.

I agree, waze friends should be stand alone!

It seems to me that Waze wants (or already has) a lucrative contract to share all of our driving habits with Facebook. We all know how much Facebook loves to acquire private information to sell for targeted advertising. I could be wrong, but that's certainly the funky smell I'm getting.

I have friends and family that I would like to connect with on Waze but I don't have a Facebook account and don't believe I should be required to ask my friends and family to sign up for a Facebook account either.

I definitely don't want to use my facebook account to find a few friends I want to connect with. I already know their usernames, so if there'd be a way...

If Waze re-implements friends please do so solely within the Waze ecosystem and without need or reliance on any third party, especially Facebook

I just want to add my wife as a friend on Waze so I can share my location with her as I did google maps she share hers with me. I should be able to enter her Waze ID or username and that is it but NO, I have to login with facebook and get her name from my facebook friends list? Bye Waze, so not using you anymore until you come to your senses and see this is something the public DOES NOT WANT, listen to us because without us using your app you would not be in business.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Agree FB to see friends is terrible

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.

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!

I agree. ! ! I just want select friends on Waze. It is a security issue

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

LDAP, XMPP PubSub are both great open protocols to accomplish this.

I do not use FB. Please bring back the old friend system.

Nasty waste, nasty Facebook. Deleting the app

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.

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.