# Limiting/customising user data collection

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/limiting-customising-user-data-collection/12143>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [January 23, 2014, 9:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/limiting-customising-user-data-collection/12143 "2014-01-23T09:48:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![drbrake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/drbrake/32/107931_2.png) [@drbrake](https://meta.discourse.org/u/drbrake)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 12:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/limiting-customising-user-data-collection/12143/5 "2014-01-23T12:40:03Z")

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Well the error message didn’t tell me how to become an “old user"– that’s also something that you could usefully change!

If these social media login features essentially demand that you gather more data than you actually want perhaps you could indicate somewhere that all you will actually be pulling in and keeping is username and e-mail information. Had I known that I would have happily used my twitter ID to login.

![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/2X/1/149d81cc252f6ff3c72478ec2487686f2cc75275.png) ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/2X/6/6d7bcee8a1cf5d5b42d6e1638a73f88434e96527.png) ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/2X/1/1bc76ee60509ded0d5744df499e8288f22877995.png)

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