I only want to use it for facebook marketplace, but jeez i didnt know they were taking it this far with this crap...
Fuck Facebook. Anyway, i prefer social media that doesn't doxx me
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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 wouldn’t know - quit using meta products years ago!
Facebook has new users?? In 2026??
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.
Yeah. Don't care. Won't use it. It's that easy.
Same for Instagram. Not doing something is easy.
They may get a pic, but they won't get my pic.
they may get a dickpic
"Sorry, you appear not to be old enough to use the site"
Lol
Facebook is what free'd me of having to interact with my local DSA /hj
Local DSA posts everything on facebook, I don't have facebook and won't post my face onto there to make it happen.
I email them but they just tell me check the facebook
I try to join the discord but they want to see me at events first, which I can't find, because they are posted on the facebook and I can only scroll down 3 posts before I get asked to login.
I give them my number and my signal but they don't reach out.
🙃
Good thing for you, that's terrible OpSec.
It's been several years already.
I don't even use facial unlock on my phone. I enter the pin every time.
Unfortunately, to access the Social Security site, I was required to send a picture of my face and driver's license. So, I suppose Trump will sell that to whoever want's to buy it now.
if you’re using an iphone, the avoidance is just your own inconvenience. face id on iphone all happens locally, on a dedicated security chip in your phone. id be much more concerned with having any pictures of myself on google photos
Use a Google Voice phone number, and an AI generated photo/video.
You can even use augmentations to create different photos/videos of the same fake person. Or create an “altered” version of yourself close enough to match whatever Facebook has.
…Hopefully.
I’m in the same predicament. There's always eBay, but they take a fat cut on top of whatever is paid for shipping.
People who are saying to just delete Facebook or don’t use it aren’t wrong of course (I say that myself, to be clear I hate FB); but as someone who tries to buy and sell things secondhand (I see it as being environmentally responsible), this is largely becoming impossible to do locally without Facebook Marketplace. I honestly have some grudging respect for Facebook’s ability to survive just when you think they might start to become irrelevant. Things were headed that way for them, then they bought Instagram. And then the last couple years, it was sort of common knowledge that the only people who use it anymore are old folks and Nazis… and then FB Marketplace kills Craigslist and becomes the only app people use for local buying/selling.
Idk maybe there’s some opportunity here for some local buy/sell federated service?
Yeah, they are like cockroaches. An alternative to marketplace and online stores is sorely needed, even for good old exchange of things.
https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt is popular in some places. Maybe popular is a strong word. The problem is getting critical mass.
As with everything else incl. Facebook, the solution to getting critical mass is to use it.
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Don't use this shit
No problemo, Zuck.
Are they the police?
Would never upload picture to American big tech service and im surprised people think thats something they agree to. I guess the addiction is too strong, to these shitty services.
In my country, biometrics are now prevalent. I had a very hard time giving my face to my bank, but the government is on board with this because, they say, we have to combat money laundry. They are trying to tie EVERYTHING to our identities: biometrics, mobile phone number, official documents, bank accounts, they are all tightly tied already.
So, people feel like their biometrics are already out there, since they don't grasp the concept of attack surface. Until now, we need to give our biometrics to vote, to pay taxes, to get a passport, to get a drivers license (in some places), and to get a serious bank account. The only way we can deny biometrics is by not needing any of those services (very poor, and very rich people that don't like to travel the world). Under these circumstances, most people just give away their biometrics to anyone that asks, it's a given for them.
Delete Facebook and problem solved. Here, where I live, we have websites for marketplace and website for concerts.
Good things this won’t affect anyone with more than a single functioning brain synapse.
As a sane person I never joined Facebook until recently. At least I tried to. Got rejected for no reason- it said I violated their authenticity requirements or some bullshit. Nonsense. I looked it up and it's common - if they can't farm enough data off you to sell they don't want you. Couldn't care less, but Zuckerberg is a human cancer.
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Use the face of Zuckerberg
Asswipe Zuckerberg treats people like bots and bots like kings. Screw him.
Is there still real people there? I thought Facebook was a bankrupt platform filled bot profile keeping the chaos an revenue on?
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