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It's easy to detect and delete these accounts...just as easy as it is to create new ones! It's a cat and mouse game...and sometimes it makes more sense to watc

It's easy to detect and delete these accounts...just as easy as it is to create new ones! It's a cat and mouse game...and sometimes it makes more sense to watch what the mouse is doing vs trying to catch it :)

geomark 10y ago
"...just as easy as it is to create new ones!" I don't do Facebook, never have. But a few months ago I wanted to add login via Facebook to an app I was developing so I signed up for an account in order to get access to the developer stuff. I verified my email address, entered a mobile number, and my account was immediately blocked with a message that I had to send in copies of government id and such. Nope. My question is, if it's so easy to open new fake accounts why did a legit account opening like mine get blocked?
- herbst 10y ago
  It isn't. Facebook blocked all my legit accounts (those I used for ads and groups) and also expects a ID copy now.
- lkrubner 10y ago
  Not long ago, I wrote about my own frustrations with Facebook, and their request for an ID: "Facebook activated my dormant account and it won’t let me deactivate it" http://www.smashcompany.com/philosophy/facebook-activated-my-dormant-account-and-it-wont-let-me-deactivate-it http://www.smashcompany.com/philosophy/facebook-activated-my... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13965134 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13965134
- type0 10y ago
  > My question is, if it's so easy to open new fake accounts why did a legit account opening like mine get blocked? It's simple really, facepook already collected the so called shadow dossier on you, now they need to attach it to your real identity so that it could be sold to advertisers.
bigbugbag 10y ago
Is it a smart way of telling us that is quite difficult to detect and delete those accounts ? I mean creating a facebook account is getting ridiculously difficult, several hoops to jump in a row and when you manage to do so it hits you with a brick and instablock the account before you even log in asking to send government issued identification with a picture.

geomark 10y ago

"...just as easy as it is to create new ones!" I don't do Facebook, never have. But a few months ago I wanted to add login via Facebook to an app I was developing so I signed up for an account in order to get access to the developer stuff. I verified my email address, entered a mobile number, and my account was immediately blocked with a message that I had to send in copies of government id and such. Nope. My question is, if it's so easy to open new fake accounts why did a legit account opening like mine get blocked?

herbst 10y ago
It isn't. Facebook blocked all my legit accounts (those I used for ads and groups) and also expects a ID copy now.
lkrubner 10y ago
Not long ago, I wrote about my own frustrations with Facebook, and their request for an ID: "Facebook activated my dormant account and it won’t let me deactivate it" http://www.smashcompany.com/philosophy/facebook-activated-my-dormant-account-and-it-wont-let-me-deactivate-it http://www.smashcompany.com/philosophy/facebook-activated-my... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13965134 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13965134
type0 10y ago
> My question is, if it's so easy to open new fake accounts why did a legit account opening like mine get blocked? It's simple really, facepook already collected the so called shadow dossier on you, now they need to attach it to your real identity so that it could be sold to advertisers.

bigbugbag 10y ago

Is it a smart way of telling us that is quite difficult to detect and delete those accounts ? I mean creating a facebook account is getting ridiculously difficult, several hoops to jump in a row and when you manage to do so it hits you with a brick and instablock the account before you even log in asking to send government issued identification with a picture.