I only want to use it for facebook marketplace, but jeez i didnt know they were taking it this far with this crap…
I didn’t think people still opened new user accounts on facebook
Facebook marketing across high schools and colleges is intense. And because it’s such a pivotal platform, you kinda need to get one and build up a - let’s call it a social credit score - just so you can endure admittance counselors and employers demanding to see your account as part of the screening process.
Sort of like getting a credit card as a teenager so you can prove you’re credit worthy enough for an apartment or car loan in your twenties. You just have to post generic mundane bullshit on the timeline and join generic mundane groups so people see you as “normal”.
Imagine you volunteer in an organization where they mentor programming for people in second and third world countries.
And after reading your background with programming and learning that you are originally from one such country and also that you are bilingual for the one single country they currently operate to, they make you the social media manager and ask to make their facebook page where they post AI generated images and then forget about it in like 4 weeks.
They never started the mentorship program. Yes I am still pissed about it, how can you tell?
More people gently creep into dementia every day.
This information goes right to the US government.
Anyone who doesn’t think Facebook is an arm of the US government is naive at best.
Wait until you hear what they do with your drivers license/ passport / or id photo.
But seriously fuck Facebook I wouldn’t voluntarily give them anything.
Would you happen to have a source on this?
The Edward Snowden leaks and PRISM
honest question, why would you think there will be a source for secret spying activities?
wdym? facebook automatically showed us it used facial recognition at least as far back as 2007 by asking us to click boxes on faces and subsequently asking us to label them… We really did all of the heavy lifting for them. -I got out while i could in ~2018
I never got in, and I stopped letting people take pictures of me so they couldn’t put me on there either.
Happened to me on twitter. They wanted to open the front camera and look at my face and estimate my age.
I just went to thispersondoesnotexist.com on PC and showed twitter that image. They accepted it.
One(1) ethical use for generative AI
I went to create an account a while ago. When I saw this, I was this close to sending them a picture of my dick and balls. But I thought myself better than these fucking creeps who insist on knowing how many wrinkles our ass has.
Thank you for the session. Same time tomorrow?
Should’ve sent them a picture of someone else’s dick for maximum confusion.
I assume Zuck has a partner but I don’t care enough about him to check. Gotta upload a totally legit ‘verification selfie’… an AI image of his partner with a dick. That’ll show him
I thought they’ve always been doing it, I never succeeded creating a facebook account because of it
I just pull a recent #selfie post from Twitter and upload it with metadata stripped
Doesn’t work. They ask you to use the camera and have you turn you head in different directions.
No thanks, I’ll close my FB Marketplace account.
you and me brother, time to go IRL to the flea market
Facebook has new users?? In 2026??
Right? I ditched them almost a decade ago.
Never used it even when it came out and I was in college.
Unfortunately it forced all existing users to submit as well, but we already gave it a bunch of photos of ourselves before the beast had revealed itself
Weird. I’ve never had to do this. I also only use FB for marketplace
I see a lot of people saying “just don’t use it”. If it was that easy…
In some places, FB has took the lion share of the 2nd hand online selling. Historical platforms are in agony and your chance of finding a buyer/seller dramatically reduce if you avoid FB maretplace.
In some places, FB is so common that schools, activities etc. are organized on FB. You don’t have an account, no worry: you’ll be the lone idiot to drop your kid at school the day it’s closed because of a snow storm.
In some places, FB is the personal life blogging platform. So if you want to know about old friends you’ve left behind as you were relocating to different countries, you’re going to miss on some quite important events (death in the family, etc.) as that’s where they let people know.
In some places, if you want to build a network, that’s where “everyone” is. You like trekking and want to find a group for that? They’re all on FB. You want to play board games? Groups are all on FB.The list goes on and on.
Bullshit. I have never used facebook and I have never had an issue where I needed to.
If you are selling second hand, use a different platform. No one is making you use marketplace.
There are online portals, calendars, and even emails that notify parents of students and events.
You can call you friends and find out how they are doing. You can also email to keep in touch. Stop posting everything about yourself and the internet and you should be telling your friends the same.
You are just making excuses as to why you need it in your life and I have never had to use it for anything since its inception.
Right, when you apply for jobs, they want socials and indeeds and this and that, when you meet people they want to add you on Facebook. These are “private” companies, but because they are natural monopolies, they essentially become quasi-required parts of being able to function normally within society.
The right way to deal with this is to regulate the fuck out of the natural monopolies, but rich elitists who own the government by proxy and big surveillance tech have this symbiotic relationship where big tech surveils and secretly data mines the public (to blacklist and exclude potential risks to the system and monitor those people) and so it won’t happen.
Republicans, hurt most by the blacklisting initially, were most likely to regulate big tech, ironically, but now money and ass-kissing of Republican leaders has changed the game and no one will fucking regulate them. All politicians who allow this to happen are either weak or whores, being paid to just perform a role of politician.
All you do is tell them you do not have an account. I have told hundreds of people this and guess what? I work and have friends and am still living. Can you believe it?
I’ve job hopped a lot, and literally no company has ever asked for my social media besides indeed, which I keep sterile clean. Actually, they’ve never even specifically asked for that either, that’s just where I’ve applied through.
Our industries may differ though.
Yeah. Don’t care. Won’t use it. It’s that easy.
Same for Instagram. Not doing something is easy.
Fuck Facebook. Anyway, i prefer social media that doesn’t doxx me
It’s been several years already.
