I didn't think people still opened new user accounts on facebook

I just pull a recent #selfie post from Twitter and upload it with metadata stripped

Weird. I've never had to do this. I also only use FB for marketplace

I thought they've always been doing it, I never succeeded creating a facebook account because of it

This information goes right to the US government.

Anyone who doesn't think Facebook is an arm of the US government is naive at best.

wdym? facebook automatically showed us it used facial recognition at least as far back as 2007 by asking us to click boxes on faces and subsequently asking us to label them... We really did all of the heavy lifting for them. -I got out while i could in ~2018

Happened to me on twitter. They wanted to open the front camera and look at my face and estimate my age.

I just went to thispersondoesnotexist.com on PC and showed twitter that image. They accepted it.

No thanks, I'll close my FB Marketplace account.

Unfortunately it forced all existing users to submit as well, but we already gave it a bunch of photos of ourselves before the beast had revealed itself

after years of getting timeouts and jail for minor cussing, the robots perma-banned me with no explanation, just a link to community standards. was pretty tired of the endless bot/slop/spam in most groups. keep that self-clicking robot swarm. family has my number.

Facebook has new users?? In 2026??

Fuck Facebook. Anyway, i prefer social media that doesn't doxx me

I see a lot of people saying "just don't use it". If it was that easy…

In some places, FB has took the lion share of the 2nd hand online selling. Historical platforms are in agony and your chance of finding a buyer/seller dramatically reduce if you avoid FB maretplace.
In some places, FB is so common that schools, activities etc. are organized on FB. You don't have an account, no worry: you'll be the lone idiot to drop your kid at school the day it's closed because of a snow storm.
In some places, FB is the personal life blogging platform. So if you want to know about old friends you've left behind as you were relocating to different countries, you're going to miss on some quite important events (death in the family, etc.) as that's where they let people know.
In some places, if you want to build a network, that's where "everyone" is. You like trekking and want to find a group for that? They're all on FB. You want to play board games? Groups are all on FB.

The list goes on and on.

They may get a pic, but they won't get my pic.

I wouldn’t know - quit using meta products years ago!

It's been several years already.

I don't even use facial unlock on my phone. I enter the pin every time.

Unfortunately, to access the Social Security site, I was required to send a picture of my face and driver's license. So, I suppose Trump will sell that to whoever want's to buy it now.

Don't use this shit

Use a Google Voice phone number, and an AI generated photo/video.

You can even use augmentations to create different photos/videos of the same fake person. Or create an “altered” version of yourself close enough to match whatever Facebook has.

…Hopefully.

I’m in the same predicament. There's always eBay, but they take a fat cut on top of whatever is paid for shipping.

Delete Facebook and problem solved. Here, where I live, we have websites for marketplace and website for concerts.

Facebook is what free'd me of having to interact with my local DSA /hj

Local DSA posts everything on facebook, I don't have facebook and won't post my face onto there to make it happen.

I email them but they just tell me check the facebook

I try to join the discord but they want to see me at events first, which I can't find, because they are posted on the facebook and I can only scroll down 3 posts before I get asked to login.

I give them my number and my signal but they don't reach out.

🙃

Are they the police?

Would never upload picture to American big tech service and im surprised people think thats something they agree to. I guess the addiction is too strong, to these shitty services.

Why use Facebook at all.

People who are saying to just delete Facebook or don’t use it aren’t wrong of course (I say that myself, to be clear I hate FB); but as someone who tries to buy and sell things secondhand (I see it as being environmentally responsible), this is largely becoming impossible to do locally without Facebook Marketplace. I honestly have some grudging respect for Facebook’s ability to survive just when you think they might start to become irrelevant. Things were headed that way for them, then they bought Instagram. And then the last couple years, it was sort of common knowledge that the only people who use it anymore are old folks and Nazis… and then FB Marketplace kills Craigslist and becomes the only app people use for local buying/selling.

Idk maybe there’s some opportunity here for some local buy/sell federated service?

No problemo, Zuck.

Just don't use Fakebook

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