Why use Facebook at all.

Here's a word of advice: do not use that sack of shit company for anything. Always use decentralized alternatives wherever possible

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.

Have been for a while. Decided to try to make a fake Facebook account mid-laat year to use marketplace since it's the dominant platform in my area. As soon as I saw this I just closed the browser tab.

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.

Well, just uploaded a photo of someone else now it says this...

It's been like that for quite a while. I remember deleting all big-tech accounts in 2019, and shortly after, Facebook started requiring login for full public page access. Therefore I created a burner account using a 'this person does not exist' picture, which provided me short-lived access after manual review. For account recovery, I was required to supply additional selfies (or even video-selfies?), but at that point I gave up.

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

Facebook has new users?

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

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

Facebook has new users?? In 2026??

I am sure the plan is to eventually roll this out to everyone.

Upload verification video of drinking verification can

Don't use this shit

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.

Is there still real people there? I thought Facebook was a bankrupt platform filled bot profile keeping the chaos an revenue on?

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

I really need a car and to sell some shit I'm not using for money, that site is so hostile I said fuck it, facebook market place isn't worth it. whose got a worth while alternative?

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.

I mean, it's right in the name, took them long enough to demand your face for their book.

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.

It’d be a shame if someone use AI to generate an image to upload. You’d just be feeding AI data into AI, and that could ruin what Facebook’s trying to do.

Just don't use Fakebook

Last time I used facebook they required me to send in a legal ID after a couple months of being registered, which locked me out of my oculus quest 2 headset back when they required facebook accounts and weren't called meta.

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.

No problemo, Zuck.

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