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From that discussion, it seems Facebook is deeply contradicting itself. On the one hand, it requires people to have a Facebook account to use the Oculus Quest 2, on the other hand, it considers inactive Facebook accounts to be fake and bans them.

So everybody who buys a Quest has to create a Facebook account, which subsequently gets banned for inactivity. To be able to use a Quest, you actually need to be active on Facebook.

Basically only buy a Quest if you really like Facebook.

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I was thinking about buying a Quest, and I do have a Facebook, but it has been years since I post or like something in there.

So that leaves me a bit insecure on buying it, and ending up getting banned and have an expensive paperweight.

I'm not active at all on Facebook itself - checking now, my last post was >18 months ago, and and other interactions (likes, comments, etc) even longer. But I leverage Messenger for a few contacts that prefer it, and that Messenger use seems to be sufficient to ward off the inactivity trigger.

I'm surprised they don't just treat the Oculus usage similarly, and count that usage as "activity" in the context of considering an account active/inactive.

Old accounts seems to be immune to this, and will not get banned even if you push the boundaries of spamming. Creating a new account, however, has become almost impossible.

... which statistically makes sense, given their "real name" policy, as they have completely saturated the existing user base.

Oh, that's good to know! My account is well seasoned from years past, even if it slowed to a trickle a few years ago before eventually going into full zombie mode ~18 months ago.

Which seems shitty since I bet a lot of people just create a new account for their Oculus just to keep it separate. Does Facebook have a one account per person policy?

Honestly we need laws in many countries that say: if a provider bans your account, you need to be able to download all your data for 30 days and you need a 100% refund of all purchases. Period.

I make all my expensive electronic items with my AMEX. AMEX has been treating me well over the past 15 years. If a company shutdown my access to it product, I would request a charge back through AMEX. Usually, AMEX accepts my request with in the same day, no question asked.

There should be a service that logs into your facebook account and posts mememes once a month.

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