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> - Every product/project you manage should be on a separate account on Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc. I wouldn’t do this with Facebook. Creating a second acco

> - Every product/project you manage should be on a separate account on Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc. I wouldn’t do this with Facebook. Creating a second account is against Facebook policy, and they may ban both accounts.

ryandrake 5y ago
Legit question: is there any other service/company on earth that bans you for having multiple accounts? This seems like an insanely restrictive policy. One of the defining characteristics of internet communication is that you can have a “work persona” and a “home persona” and maybe another one for your hobbies, another one for your porn browsing and gambling, another one for your aunts and uncles. To deny this basic, universal concept is backwards and frankly shouldn’t be acceptable to anyone.
- coliveira 5y ago
  Internet companies have decided to deny this right the moment they figured out that your identity is valuable. Nowadays Google and FB, among others, will punish you if you use different online identities without their knowledge.
- dasyatidprime 5y ago
  GitHub disallows multiple free accounts in the TOS, meaning identity separation seemingly implies a continuous subscription cost forever. I'm not aware of any high-profile enforcement, but it's there.
- matkoniecz 5y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppetry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppetry It is also a common policy on many forums. And while I love complaining about policies and behavior of FB, Google, Amazon etc, this one makes sense. Almost always you ban person, not account - so standard is to allow one account or to require accounts to be clearly linked (for example, a separate bot account that is clearly declared).
  - panic 5y ago
    Wikipedia's policy doesn't say you can't have multiple accounts, just that you can't misuse them.
- numpad0 5y ago
  Microsoft reportedly has internal one identity policy, Facebook is notorious for forcing people to expose, etc.
  - PeterisP 5y ago
    It would be so ridiculous for Microsoft to have a one identity policy because Microsoft software accounts are generally provided by employers and tied to them, I have 4 MS identities (personal, two companies and university) and MS does not provide an option to use a single identity for that.
CGamesPlay 5y ago
You can create Page accounts directly, which are not "people", so they aren't subject to that policy. They also do not have access to the same features, however.
rexf 5y ago
It seems like a risk with Google too. It's common to be logged into Google/Gmail with multiple Google accounts. Even with separate Google accounts, Google can tell they are related and could potentially ban them too. A quick web search came up with Google's "associated account ban": > "Associated account ban" means not just explicit account linkages, but also implicit ones, where a wife can be banned for the misbehavior of her husband https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/ckoej1/googles_practice_of_associated_account_ban_aka/ https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/ckoej1/googles_...
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- malka 5y ago
  It is funny how Google behaves like the worst dictatorship on the planet. Guilt by association is such a bunch of crap.
- pudmaidai 5y ago
  I just can’t wait for my personal Google accounts as well as several others business accounts I access regularly to suddenly be blocked all at once.
ipaddr 5y ago
Every older person I know does this because some games require to be unlocked at different stages by a friend.
inopinatus 5y ago
Facebook's demand is this brain-damaged garbage: If you want to represent your business, organisation, brand or product on Facebook, you can use your personal account to create and manage a Page. We have a diametrically conflicting policy, by which personal accounts absolutely may not be used to manage company resources, for exactly the aforementioned reasons of minimising blast radius; so, we basically gave up on Facebook. The double standard is evident: can you imagine any FAANG security team allowing a major corporate communications channel to be owned by a personal account? Answer: no; because doing something that fucking stupid would be a disciplinary offence.
- bennyp101 5y ago
  Yep, I wanted to set up a Facebook page for my company, but as I don't want a personal Facebook account, I figured it wasn't worth it because it would end up being fake info, and they could then just shut it down.

ryandrake 5y ago

Legit question: is there any other service/company on earth that bans you for having multiple accounts? This seems like an insanely restrictive policy. One of the defining characteristics of internet communication is that you can have a “work persona” and a “home persona” and maybe another one for your hobbies, another one for your porn browsing and gambling, another one for your aunts and uncles. To deny this basic, universal concept is backwards and frankly shouldn’t be acceptable to anyone.

coliveira 5y ago
Internet companies have decided to deny this right the moment they figured out that your identity is valuable. Nowadays Google and FB, among others, will punish you if you use different online identities without their knowledge.
dasyatidprime 5y ago
GitHub disallows multiple free accounts in the TOS, meaning identity separation seemingly implies a continuous subscription cost forever. I'm not aware of any high-profile enforcement, but it's there.
matkoniecz 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppetry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppetry It is also a common policy on many forums. And while I love complaining about policies and behavior of FB, Google, Amazon etc, this one makes sense. Almost always you ban person, not account - so standard is to allow one account or to require accounts to be clearly linked (for example, a separate bot account that is clearly declared).
- panic 5y ago
  Wikipedia's policy doesn't say you can't have multiple accounts, just that you can't misuse them.
numpad0 5y ago
Microsoft reportedly has internal one identity policy, Facebook is notorious for forcing people to expose, etc.
- PeterisP 5y ago
  It would be so ridiculous for Microsoft to have a one identity policy because Microsoft software accounts are generally provided by employers and tied to them, I have 4 MS identities (personal, two companies and university) and MS does not provide an option to use a single identity for that.

CGamesPlay 5y ago

You can create Page accounts directly, which are not "people", so they aren't subject to that policy. They also do not have access to the same features, however.

rexf 5y ago

It seems like a risk with Google too. It's common to be logged into Google/Gmail with multiple Google accounts. Even with separate Google accounts, Google can tell they are related and could potentially ban them too. A quick web search came up with Google's "associated account ban": > "Associated account ban" means not just explicit account linkages, but also implicit ones, where a wife can be banned for the misbehavior of her husband https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/ckoej1/googles_practice_of_associated_account_ban_aka/ https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/ckoej1/googles_...

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malka 5y ago
It is funny how Google behaves like the worst dictatorship on the planet. Guilt by association is such a bunch of crap.
pudmaidai 5y ago
I just can’t wait for my personal Google accounts as well as several others business accounts I access regularly to suddenly be blocked all at once.

ipaddr 5y ago

Every older person I know does this because some games require to be unlocked at different stages by a friend.

inopinatus 5y ago

Facebook's demand is this brain-damaged garbage: If you want to represent your business, organisation, brand or product on Facebook, you can use your personal account to create and manage a Page. We have a diametrically conflicting policy, by which personal accounts absolutely may not be used to manage company resources, for exactly the aforementioned reasons of minimising blast radius; so, we basically gave up on Facebook. The double standard is evident: can you imagine any FAANG security team allowing a major corporate communications channel to be owned by a personal account? Answer: no; because doing something that fucking stupid would be a disciplinary offence.

bennyp101 5y ago
Yep, I wanted to set up a Facebook page for my company, but as I don't want a personal Facebook account, I figured it wasn't worth it because it would end up being fake info, and they could then just shut it down.