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Comment by jjaredsimpson | Hacker News Reader

Kinda absurd. You can setup a one time email, and one time facebook if you really want to segregate.

Sure you win on principle, but that's just the same as losing.

Actually you can't, because Facebook will lock your account for inauthentic behavior. Try making a fake account, and see how long you can hold on to it without being extorted for personal, identifiable information.

I set up a fake Facebook profile 10 years ago, because I needed a profile with no friends that I could use for testing some stuff at work. It is still alive and kicking; Facebook keeps sending it emails suggesting friends.

We can spend all day arguing anecdotes. As a counterpoint, I've never used Facebook, but once tried setting up an account to participate in a group event organized by some friends - by the next day, before I could even use the account, Facebook had locked my account, and wanted a photo of my ID to let me access the account. Needless to say, I abandoned the account.

The person who I replied to made a personal challenge to try creating a fake account, so I responded with my personal experience doing just that.

I was not making any claims about the likelihood of an account being banned.

same, I have a fake account and no issue with it

That won't probably work any more. I have a couple of old test accounts, can't create new ones without them being locked right away.

Kinda absurd. You can't setup a one time email, and one time facebook if you really don't want your movement online all linked to a government issued ID.

Sure you're sort of an idiot to make those assumptions, but I'm sure you already came to this realization about yourself years ago.

What if I'm too stupid to introspect?

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