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All my personal details on Facebook are (and have always been) false. My phone number is the number of a hotel in Monte Carlo. When Facebook nagged me to give them my mobile number for 2fa I ignored them. My friends thought I was crazy. I know it's not exactly gracious of me but feeling very self righteous right about now.

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Your friends also gave Facebook your actual phone number too....

Facebook app abuses your phones internal Contacts API.

Effectively, you are linked and your main Facebook account is known to be a pseudonym already

So you're stuffing it full of false data, but still connected to people who aren't stuffing it full of false data?

That seems like a lot of effort for no real payoff.

This is basically the only reason I don't "delete" my Facebook account. I have so many family members and friends that I cannot realistically prevent putting pictures and the like about me on Facebook.

At least I can see some of what Facebook has about me instead of none.

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