[drnick1]

> want to check if the small neighborhood grocery has something in stock? No phone, only Instagram DMs.

You can use a throwaway account for that or other things such as FB Marketplace. It's not ideal because it generates traffic on FB, but it's better than handing over all your private communications to Zuckerberg.

[erremerre]

Not sure what country are you from. Last time I tried to make a throwaway account to sell something in Facebook Marketplace I was welcome with a submit picture to test if you are real which when uploaded with a IA generated picture got blocked.

[dmje]

Yeh but you can’t because they need phone validation, no?

[drnick1]

Back when I last used FB you could create an account tied to an email address. I don't know if things have changed since, but throwaway phone numbers are also a thing.