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Same thing happened to me, and I tried to email them about a clear bug that occurs. They wanted the same photo verification. I was very nice in the corresponden

Same thing happened to me, and I tried to email them about a clear bug that occurs. They wanted the same photo verification. I was very nice in the correspondence until they requested photo verification a second time, and I was so confused why they were being so incompetent about it. It's a 0 follower account that I never had access to in the first place because it instantly got disabled, why would I care? Just fix the bug... Basically, if you try to change the username before completing the sign up workflow the app doesn’t continue to the next page and the account gets disabled. Judging by your experience they seemingly haven't fixed it still. I emailed them in October 2019 about it, pretty sad. Their final message to me was "We can’t give you access to this account or continue to process your request because we haven’t received an acceptable image to verify account ownership." Thanks for nothing, Facebook.

asdf21 7y ago
It blows my mind that people still use Facebook products. I disconnected in like... idk 2014? 2015? And never looked back.
- seph-reed 7y ago
  It's unpopular amongst "hackers" to devalidate the use of FB products in this way. For better or worse, that's apparent from this.
  - Darkphibre 7y ago
    I think the unpopular opinion here is "I don't find value, thus there is no value." When, in reality, many people do find a value. Somewhere. Heck, I post maybe once a year on Facebook. It's how my in-laws communicate, so that's where I have to go if I want to interact with that part of my social graph. It has a value (however small), even if I wished it didn't.
    - seph-reed 7y ago
      I see what you're saying, but given how addictive FB is, and how much advertisement they use, you're kind of giving them the upper hand by playing neutral. For instance, I never go to Walmart (but sometimes do). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=repxFQXVsHc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=repxFQXVsHc
- willis936 7y ago
  The only facebook product I still use is oculus. I am rather curious what their software is doing. At a glance it seems innocent, but I’m not so naive to think anything facebook does is innocent. https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/4da3r5/oculus_home_network_traffic_detailed_analysis/ https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/4da3r5/oculus_home_...
  - ShamelessC 7y ago
    That reddit thread was pretty disappointing. I was expecting some analysis of the contents of the network calls. It's also around four years old. Since I have trouble believing Facebook isn't gathering telemetry from Oculus users, do you know of any more recent attempts to see what they're doing?
- badwolf 7y ago
  Your personal experience is not universal.
- grishka 7y ago
  Social media platform is not an operating system. You can't just decide and switch. If you delete your account, you're missing out on updates from your friends who all are still there. Doing this you're only hurting yourself, not corporations.

asdf21 7y ago

It blows my mind that people still use Facebook products. I disconnected in like... idk 2014? 2015? And never looked back.

seph-reed 7y ago
It's unpopular amongst "hackers" to devalidate the use of FB products in this way. For better or worse, that's apparent from this.
- Darkphibre 7y ago
  I think the unpopular opinion here is "I don't find value, thus there is no value." When, in reality, many people do find a value. Somewhere. Heck, I post maybe once a year on Facebook. It's how my in-laws communicate, so that's where I have to go if I want to interact with that part of my social graph. It has a value (however small), even if I wished it didn't.
  - seph-reed 7y ago
    I see what you're saying, but given how addictive FB is, and how much advertisement they use, you're kind of giving them the upper hand by playing neutral. For instance, I never go to Walmart (but sometimes do). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=repxFQXVsHc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=repxFQXVsHc
willis936 7y ago
The only facebook product I still use is oculus. I am rather curious what their software is doing. At a glance it seems innocent, but I’m not so naive to think anything facebook does is innocent. https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/4da3r5/oculus_home_network_traffic_detailed_analysis/ https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/4da3r5/oculus_home_...
- ShamelessC 7y ago
  That reddit thread was pretty disappointing. I was expecting some analysis of the contents of the network calls. It's also around four years old. Since I have trouble believing Facebook isn't gathering telemetry from Oculus users, do you know of any more recent attempts to see what they're doing?
badwolf 7y ago
Your personal experience is not universal.
grishka 7y ago
Social media platform is not an operating system. You can't just decide and switch. If you delete your account, you're missing out on updates from your friends who all are still there. Doing this you're only hurting yourself, not corporations.