[vmception]

When you make a facebook account disconnected from a social graph (new email, or unused phone number) facebook shuts down the account.

Their position is clear. They’re fucking creeps masquerading any user experience they create as anti-spam.

[ibdf]

I made a burner account to be able to login into certain sites that requires fb login. After 2 months without a phone number they disabled it, and since my email was also a burner they removed it. I had then to create an actual email account, and give them my phone number (I don't have a burner number) to be able to activate the account again. Besides my phone number, nothing else is real in there, even my profile image is from one of those "this person does not exist" sites.

[distances]

Your phone number is probably already verified by being caught in their net from your friends and relatives. I assume it'd be a different situation with a burner number.

[spike021]

Is this confirmed? I made a second account at one point with a new email and have had zero issues with both. Although I rarely log into the first one, maybe once a month or so.

[0xdeadb00f]

Facebook has banned multiple burner account of mine, so I suppose it is confirmed.

[aspaceman]

It's still connected to the graph if you have another account accessed from the same IP. They know there's a connection from that account to yours.

Don't create a burner account. Facebook's TOS is to lock burners and require an ID to unlock, so you'd be locking all your games out of access.

[spike021]

Again, I've had and technically logged into both accounts concurrently for at least the past 3-5 years. So unless this only applies to new accounts, I have yet to have either one locked out.

That's why I was wondering if it's officially confirmed somewhere.

[vmception]

This isn’t a 3-5 year old phenomenon.

I don’t think there are many people that are cognizant in how to break their social graph.

I’ve seen a few other hackernews comments corroborating it over the past year. But it isn't a common case so Facebook gets away with it.

[R0b0t1]

You can sue them. I think this is what it will take. I've got an orphaned GOG account that they are not responding to me about, and I am definitely entitled to access those games.

[aspaceman]

True. It's all within your rights. I'm just trying to say they really don't like burners and won't make it easy to go that route. (If I had to guess)

[cobbzilla]

You sue; they restore access to moot the lawsuit, but then tie your real info listed on the suit to your account, no longer making it anonymous. Win-win? /sarc

[R0b0t1]

No, you could probably sue for access that does not need an account esp. if they have gravely changed the terms since you signed up.

[Arnavion]

They're going to lose their games if they don't make any account anyway. So if they feel strongly about not making a proper account, they might as well try with a burner one and see how long it lasts?

[e12e]

Just rewatching "Person of Interest" and came across "Finch" casually remarking that he invented social networking in order to increase the quality of data gleaned from his totalitarian surveillance machine... (specifically to fill in the social graph data...).

[WrtCdEvrydy]

It makes sense... we've sold our data for the ability to tell 'Alexa set a timer'

[eternalban]

The society at large was akin to natives of an undeveloped land being preyed upon by an advanced civilization. They were offered glass beads and trinkets, "a mirror to amuse yourself with, your highness!". And society at large behaved precisely as the historic natives.

[actuator]

I think for some service which for some reason had just FB signup I made a burner FB account and locked in all the privacy settings, I was thrown out of the account in under an hour. It kept asking for phone number which I didn't want to give.

[KaiserPro]

They don't. You can have stand alone accounts. All you need to do is follow a few things like a beer company, car comapny or some other faceless corp.

Job done. raise the noise floor.

[vmception]

Yeah, if you forget to do that within a day you are locked out forever.

[juergbi]

So they're effectively saying you can't use Oculus gear if you don't have any friends (on social media).

[jameslk]

I've had a burner FB account for years and have never had an issue. What's your source for this?

[cptskippy]

I tried, in vain, to create a FB account using my work email address sometime after 2010 and FB demanded verification by SMS.

I ended up using my personal email address because that's how they want it.

[KaiserPro]

yeah thats not actually true.

My mum has a shadow facebook account for a number of reasons. She only has one friend, its on a shadow email. It's still active after a good 6 months.

it didn't require a phone number either. I mean it asked, but I didn't give it one.

So long as the emails dont bounce, you're good.

[distances]

> So long as the emails dont bounce, you're good.

Simply not true. I suggest you try yourself and see how long the account stays unlocked.

[KaiserPro]

> My mum has a shadow facebook account for a number of reasons. She only has one friend, its on a shadow email. It's still active after a good 6 months.

I mean I don't know how I can make it any clearer....

[distances]

Well this is a pointless discussion. I've tried it and can just repeat myself, try it yourself and see your new burner account locked. I've no insight to how and when your mom created her accounts.

[vmception]

just because she got on the left side of the A/B test doesn't invalidate our experiences

[mensetmanusman]

Create a social graph of creeps only

[elorant]

In which case you buy a verified fake account and move on.