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What would happen to foreigners entering the US with a "fake" facebook profile as their social media ID? Straight to jail or straight back home?

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Nothing? Facebook is not a passport, you can be called whoever you want on it.

The GP is referring to the person violating Facebook's terms of use I think

I get the point you're making, but highlighting the original point, Facebook terms explicitly say you _can't_ do that.

"You will not provide any false personal information on Facebook, or create an account for anyone other than yourself without permission."

The problem I see is what is facebook out. You still watch the ads.

If you have a false facebook account, you broke facebooks ToS! That means you accessed facebooks servers without authentication!! That is a crime under e.g. the CFAA!!!

Criminals go to jail.

That is the argument at least.

how do you prove that i have a fake facebook account? obviously i would have to log-out on my mobile and laptop

If you don't have identification that matches the name of your Facebook account.

There are a whole lot of facebook accounts that I don't have ID to match.

It violates the Facebook ToS to have an account with a name that doesn't match your ID.

Right, but how could anyone prove that you are the one who created the fake account?

They could look at your phone or computer and see which Facebook account you are logged into. This won't prove you created it but even logging into it is possibly a ToS violation.

Face recognition could also work.

Note that this is rather hypothetical.

I'm not sure how this would work. You mean if Facebook started requiring people to login via webcam/facial recognition?

but how would they find this "name of your facebook account"? yes they will have my ID, real name, finger prints, etc. but how would they figure out that I am using facebook account "puppy123"? And even if they would suspect it somehow (someone would report it), I can simply deny and there is no evidence that I am in fact owner of that account. or what am i missing?

If you're logged into it on your phone/computer, it's evidence that you created the account. Or else you logged into someone else's account which is also a ToS violation.

thats why i wrote in my first comment: "obviously i would have to log-out on my mobile and laptop"

Ah okay, I did not get that, it's quite an extreme view... The best they should be able to do legally is close your account, nothing more.

You'd have had to lie to Customs and Border Protection, which is already probably a crime and quite likely sufficient to get you detained and deported.

They'd be taken out behind the chemical sheds... and shot.

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/341110-you-were-already-in-a...

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