I only plan to use it for messaging in a couple of sports teams and event invitations.

I’m willing to take a lot of measures as long as they don’t get the account blocked - no phone app, dedicated virtual machine+VPN to isolate from other internet activity, purchased fake phone number in signup, adding fake interests and life details. However, I won’t provide any real ID/photos, are these needed for signup?

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    3 days ago

    Just out of interest: what’s on FB messenger that makes all the things you are willing to do to circumvent the grubby data tentacles worth it? I’m just asking because I came to the conclusion not to use FB a while ago and I haven’t looked back.

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      2 days ago

      Just out of interest: what’s on FB messenger

      It’s the first line of the post ;)

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      Personally I use Facebook as a launchpad for IRL relationships. Kinda like Meetup or similar. Everything gets posted to Facebook. There are Facebook groups. They don’t get posted anywhere else. FB basically has a Monopoly on group events and socializing/networking.

      Aside from that, Marketplace. Especially since Craigslist randomly banned me from posting for no reason.