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by jrochkind1 4615 days ago
You may be committing a crime of fraud to give them a doctored ID. Something you can be prosecuted for.

Doesn't mean you can't do it and maybe get away with it, but now if you are caught, the state can press charges and put you in jail. Which is quite probably good enough for facebook, they wouldn't neccesarily get any additional value from actually validating you with the government somehow.