[pelagic_sky]

All I ever hear about Facebook any more is just its marketplace. It's gotten to the point where I might make an account just so I can easily sell stuff locally.

[ses1984]

I made an account to sell a cheap guitar. I listed it for $100 and used all my own original pictures.

They said my listing was suspicious and needed to verify my identity, which meant sending them a picture of me holding my drivers license next to my face.

I had a lot of other stuff to sell, so I obliged.

They said that wasn’t enough and they required another photo, this time holding my passport by my head.

I thought this was pretty crazy, but also, I had a lot of stuff to sell, and privacy is pretty much already dead so why not?

They said they could not verify my identity.

The end.

[42772827]

Facebook has entered this weird statistical zone where “if you don’t have a Facebook account by now you’re probably a scammer.” I deleted my facebook account in 2015 and then tried to sign up again also when I had stuff to sell, they couldn’t verify me either.

[LtWorf]

You should have created an obviously fake account called like "Mark Guy" with a photo of an asian woman and you should have posted some nazi stuff. In that case your account would have been completely fine for them.

[FeloniousHam]

I have only briefly had a Facebook, maybe 2 or 3 times, most recently to sell/giveaway a bunch of stuff before a house move.

It was simple, easy, and reliable.

[mysterydip]

"thanks for the training data, goodbye"

[tokioyoyo]

And groups, really. Almost all local level group activity exclusively gets managed on Facebook in the cities I lived in.

[ghaff]

If I want to have even a vague idea about what’s going on in my town it’s pretty much Facebook or a neighbor who is more plugged in than I am. Also it’s the only web presence a lot of small local businesses have.

I do keep up with some friends on Facebook but I’m very selective about adding anyone new.

[CSMastermind]

Not just local groups - groups of any kind.

I'm part of a bunch of book collector groups because it's pretty much the only place on the internet to connect with other people around the world about it.

[is_true]

Facebook groups are the ultimate data source for LLMs. They have so much information. They are forums for specific subjects but without the friction of signing up.