I got this on one of my joke accounts years ago.

I googled “3d face generator”, clicked on the first website, and slapped in an image of trump. Then I just rotated the 3d model following whatever the instructions were, and it worked lol

I would sooner put my nuts in an iron vice while running 10.000 volts through it and lighting it on fire than provide Facebook with anything at all.

I read so many of the comments and concerns, and I don’t even disagree with them!

Just want to add my two cents.

Lots of people are talking about how they resent that Marketplace has become the place to sell. I get that.

However, this is more of the same in an ongoing evolution of online ads & classifieds.

Originally eBay was King. Craigslist was kind of under the radar and not enough of a threat that they did anything about it.

Then all kinds of little online competitors to eBay started to pop up and they were becoming reasonably successful.

eBay then acquired PayPal so they could squash up startups. It worked. They no longer own PayPal but things change.

Kijiji popped up and was eating eBay’s lunch on a local level. Instead of competing, eBay spun off local classifieds to another company which acquired Kijiji.

I don’t even know all the back and forth wranglings, but it’s all a giant multi-corporate game that’s been played for 30 years.

Then all kinds of different “out of the box” storefronts started to appear.

Now Meta got in the game and they are keeping eBay and Kijiji “honest”. They’ve gone ahead and integrated it with Messenger and other apps so you never have to leave their ecosystem.

It literally took 30 years, but I am finally content as both a buyer and a heavy seller, with all of the online options available. I no longer feel like they are trying to wrangle every penny out of me as of seller, and they let me voluntarily pay to promote my sales in MY terms.

That said, I’m not sure how I feel about needing so much information about people just to make an account.

On one hand (I’m very biased towards the seller’s perspective) I can actually see the need to apply as much verification as possible for new accounts. It’s been a severe deficiency in their product for years and years and years. And as a seller, I am exhausted with bots and fake accounts and people who want to hide in the shadows, there’s no reason to do that when you’re buying a vacuum off me and want to come to my home to pick it up.

On the other hand, I made my account years ago so I’m not subject to this requirement. But if I put myself in the shoes of somebody making a new account today. Holy fuck would I not be impressed with this.

I really don’t know what the answer is. I would never upload ID or a video of my face to them. I don’t know what’s needed here.

For years people have given me the blinking stare of unbelief when I tell them I’ve never had a Facebook. Now being absent on that platform and others is seen as suspicious. I got a buddy who couldn’t complete a job application because Facebook was a mandatory field in the electronic form. The border Gestapo and the State Department require your socials for visa applications. A friend told me that she wouldn’t date a guy without socials because she browses them as a kind of background check.

Fuck Meta.

You know what’s funny about that? Facebook banned me several months ago claiming a problem with community guidelines despite the fact that I was only using it to connect to an app that required it to save progress.

Leave it to Fuckerberg

Absolute clown show.

Ease of use is a forgotten artform it seems

Stop using that shit, your life will be better for it.

It’s going to require DNA samples in my lifetime.

I wish I didn’t have to use Facebook.

“We, a company that has allowed AI generated propaganda to run rampant and destabilize global politics, need to make sure you are a real person so you must provide us with a video proving you are real that we totally wont use for AI and facial recognition purposes.”