A question about signing up for Facebook

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If you try to register there, do you HAVE to provide personal information? I would like to sign up anonymously, but I'm having difficulty doing so. FB keeps asking for immediate video proof of who I am. I refuse to do that, but I still need to register there.

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W@rui said:
Why do you want a facebook account anyway?
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I desperately need to gather some information from a particular FB page, but I cannot access it without being registered.

Grub said:
That's pretty gay. When I signed up they didn't even want a phone number. All you needed was an email address.
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Yah, apparently FB has really ratcheted up security during the sign-up process to better deal with bots and creepers.
 
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We Are The Witches said:
This stuff is not new at all, it has been happening since years ago (probably close to or more than a decade ago, since they asked for pictures and IDs).

It's one of the reasons why it sucks so bad.
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I dunno. I made a second sock facebook account to do something or another, I can't remember now, sometime a few years ago and the only thing I needed to give them was a phone number and I'm pretty sure I used a textnow number and not a real phone number.
 
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Grub said:
I dunno. I made a second sock facebook account to do something or another, I can't remember now, sometime a few years ago and the only thing I needed to give them was a phone number and I'm pretty sure I used a textnow number and not a real phone number.
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You may have to get lucky.

I have a Facebook account without any phone number or other information, and is a blatant sock, but at any time they can block you due to suspicious activity and demand your ID.
 
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We Are The Witches said:
You may have to get lucky.

I have a Facebook account without any phone number or other information, and is a blatant sock, but at any time they can block you due to suspicious activity and demand your ID.
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I didn't really use it for anything so I probably just didn't trigger anything like that. I remember, it was so I could see exactly what shit was public on my actual profile when a stranger viewed it.

That and op's post in general makes me wonder how all the fucking bots and scammers manage to make accounts. The weirdest one was when someone added me with the same name as one of my friends and then started talking to me and it was immediately obvious it was a pajeet or something.
 
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I haven't made a new FB account since 2018 but at the time all that was required was a phone number and email address.
 
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When I made a sock account they immediately froze it saying they didn't think I was who I said I was. I don't remember how it ended up getting fixed. I remember sending a report saying that was my real name but I never sent ID because it wasn't my real name at all.
 
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We Are The Witches said:
This stuff is not new at all, it has been happening since years ago (probably close to or more than a decade ago, since they asked for pictures and IDs).

It's one of the reasons why it sucks so bad.
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I've talked to a number of people who say they didn't have these signup issues a few years ago. Also, a lot of people are being asked to prove who they are despite having FB accounts that are at least 10 years old.
 
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What do you guys think about buying a facebook account off of someone else? I've heard there are tons of scammers who won't end up giving you the log-in information, but I figure that using an escrow service could reduce that risk.
 
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Quence said:
I've talked to a number of people who say they didn't have these signup issues a few years ago. Also, a lot of people are being asked to prove who they are despite having FB accounts that are at least 10 years old.
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They probably didn't back then, but it was possible.

It doesn't matter what you do, if it detects "suspicious activity", which can actually be you simply messing in your own settings (yes, this is 100% true as it happened to one account I had), it may ask for such verification.

Their algorithm for this is crap, so determining what causes it to trigger would be a futile task; the correct thing to do is to assume that the platform is shit and will search for any excuse to get data from you.

You may get lucky some day and manage to sign-up without that nonsense, but by this point it will be difficult (since these platforms now blatantly ask for more and more), just know that if you manage that, at some point you could get prompted again with the ID verification. Walking on egg-shells, remember that.
 
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Sparkletor 2.0 said:
Back in my day you could create an account with a burner email, go make fun of progeria children, troll the Amanda Todd memorial page, or bully some teenage moms, get banned, and create a new account in minutes. Good times.
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Gosh, it would be nice if it was that easy to register there.

We Are The Witches said:
It doesn't matter what you do, if it detects "suspicious activity", which can actually be you simply messing in your own settings (yes, this is 100% true as it happened to one account I had), it may ask for such verification.

Their algorithm for this is crap, so determining what causes it to trigger would be a futile task; the correct thing to do is to assume that the platform is shyte and will search for any excuse to get data from you.
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That’s what really bothers me: the nagging feeling that the verification requests are less about security and more about monetizing personal information.

We Are The Witches said:
You may get lucky some day and manage to sign-up without that nonsense, but by this point it will be difficult (since these platforms now blatantly ask for more and more), just know that if you manage that, at some point you could get prompted again with the ID verification. Walking on egg-shells, remember that.
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I just need an account that’s viable for enough time for me to gather information from one or two particular FB pages.
 
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Quence said:
That’s what really bothers me: the nagging feeling that the verification requests are less about security and more about monetizing personal information.


I just need an account that’s viable for enough time for me to gather information from one or two particular FB pages.
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It was never about security.

As said, you can try your luck every now and then with the registration, or you can ask someone you know to do it for you, if it's a punctual thing. I don't know how it will go with buying an account, my guess would be that "suspicious activity" would trigger anyways when you attempt to log in from other IP, I am not sure though.

I have an old sock-account that I can try to fire up, if you want I can look if it still works and check that stuff for you.
 
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Quence said:
That’s what really bothers me: the nagging feeling that the verification requests are less about security and more about monetizing personal information.
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It's both. There are a LOT of scammers who scrape public-facing info from profiles and create a mimic account, friend request that original profile's entire list of friends, and then send phishing links through PM to anyone who accepts the invite. Easy enough to spot if you're even slightly technologically literate, but as you can imagine boomers fall for it all the time.

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I just need an account that’s viable for enough time for me to gather information from one or two particular FB pages.
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What pages?
 
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For the video confirmation, just send videos of your feet. I hear that Zuckerberg's programming can't compute those, and his processor will melt!
 
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