[jotm]

A practice dating back to MySpace, or even before it.

Facebook used to do the same "yo wait, you need to send us a photo of yourself to verify the account". You could send... any selfies, even ones already uploaded to the account.

The people or algos doing the verification didn't give a fuck/weren't advanced enough and the accounts could be verified with a high success rate, you could even retry with different photos.

Maybe they improved that.

[efreak]

That was when I stopped using Facebook. Facebook had a single edited photo of me that (at the time) was 10 years old, and I didn't care to give them another. I decided that I didn't use Facebook enough to care, so I just stopped. One of these days I need to go in and officially delete my account.