Excuse me venting here...

I am working on an app for a client. One of the features is sharing to twitter, facebook, etc.

In order to do so you need some API keys from the various sites to use in your app. I added half a dozen services with no problem. Then came facebook.

I have avoided creating a facebook page but it was needed in order to register an app as a developer. So I tried to sign up. I gave what I felt was the minimal information needed to start an account.

They decided that I was just going to spam them so they asked for a phone number to verify I was a real person. OK. Fair enough. I give them my google voice number to send me a text. I don't get the text. Repeat a few times. No text. Try again.  'You are requesting too many codes in a short period of time' Again, fair enough a bot network might do that.

Realzing this isn't going to work with text messaging and google voice, I give them a real live phone number and select the option to receive a voice call..... 'Our systems are busy. Try again later' Progress? Perhaps....

Repeat the process 3-4 times. Systems still busy. Really? You can't get a machine to dial my number and give me a code?? After 3-4 times it says I am spamming the system and locks me out again. Sometimes I can try again in a few hours sometimes 10-12 hours later it still says too many tries.

This has been going on for 3 days. Glad I didn't want the facebook page anyway.

Ended up using the client account to get the API key. Everything worked fine. For now.