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Re:Let the Internet Be Grimy by tsimionescu on Monday July 10, 2023 @03:43AM (#36663214)
> This is solved by people just make another profile to keep it separate. It is okay not to add your mother on your hobby account.

Note that Facebook and many other social media sites go out of their way to prevent the same person having two accounts. It is against their terms of service, and they do try to enforce it in various ways.

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Re:Let the Internet Be Grimy by charcircuit on Monday July 10, 2023 @12:10PM (#36668392)
Okay? Facebook lets you create multiple profiles using the same account.

In your example the problem was that someone's mom was reading all of their posts and not that they wanted to use different login information for each profile.

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Re:Let the Internet Be Grimy by tsimionescu on Monday July 10, 2023 @12:33PM (#36668781)
For one thing, I wasn't aware of the Profiles feature (and couldn't figure out how pt create another one even after reading it exists, though I'm sure I just wasn't careful enough reading the settings in-app).

Still, the comment above used both profile and account to refer to the same thing ("create a new profile", "your hobby account") so I'm not even sure which they were suggesting.

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