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Re:Facebook is King, Other Networks Fight for Scraps by dave2000 on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @04:16PM (#11441682)
Why don't you just create an account for this sort of thing. No baby pictures, no sharing your holiday photos, no commenting on friends/families/colleagues posts. Just accessing groups/sites who use it because it's an extremely cost effective way of getting an internet presence. I used to be just like you but relented in the end because of Facebook messenger (yeah, could use email but people can't generally be bothered with that any more).
Re:Facebook is King, Other Networks Fight for Scraps by vskarine on Thursday April 07, 2016 @12:28AM (#11444722)
The problem is that they force you to use your real identity.
Re:Facebook is King, Other Networks Fight for Scraps by dave2000 on Thursday April 07, 2016 @04:12AM (#11445577)
They would never know. They don't let you use it if you're under 13; there are probably tens of millions of children using it.
Re:Facebook is King, Other Networks Fight for Scraps by facetube on Thursday April 07, 2016 @04:25AM (#11445631)
Until someone doesn't like one of your posts and reports your account as a fake. Then it gets locked and they make you scan your drivers license and send it in. I've seen this happen to people who do things as innocuous as put a nickname between their first and last name.
Re:Facebook is King, Other Networks Fight for Scraps by dave2000 on Thursday April 07, 2016 @10:26AM (#11447481)
Sure, but then you create another fake account. In any event, my original suggestion was for people who simply wanted to silently join groups to read info, and/or avoid annoying login requests.
Re:Facebook is King, Other Networks Fight for Scraps by tim333 on Thursday April 07, 2016 @08:07AM (#11446559)
Which is not always a bad thing. It allows comments on community websites without getting most spam, trolls, sexist abuse and so on. Which is a large part of why things like community websites have moved there.