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[–] 74 points 1 month ago

Good for them.

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  • [–] 42 points 1 month ago

    In the early heyday of FB I set up accounts for my elderly parents thinking it would make it easy for them to see pics & clips of their grandkids and such.

    Thank goodness they never used them.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    There are adults that never used the accounts they set up themselves as kids to play Farmville with a friend.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I don't use my primary for anything but messenger, for a few contacts.

    I have an alt I gamed with back in 2010ish, and I use that for anything at all that I actually do on FB... Like share info and resources, and show support on DeFlock groups. It has literally no connection to me, I connect wholly via VPN and an alt FB app.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Yeah I picked the keep messenger option when I deleted my Facebook because I need to be able to get back in touch with my past work connections and a lot of them that's the only consistent contact info I have for them. I don't even really need references as much as I need to be able to scout out which places are too sketchy to bother with (I work in a licensed profession where I can lose that license if I let a sketchy outfit put me in the wrong kinds of situations.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 month ago (8 children)
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    There are so many influencers who got their start in pampers.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    It's been 20 years since Facebook became popular, and 25 years since vlogging became a thing. I dunno what to tell you

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    Boring answer but besides a few quixotic individuals who reserve high value digital real estate for loved ones JIC, most online accounts created on behalf of those with little agency (babies, pets, etc) were created exclusively to funnel more attention to the attention-addicted creator, whether via cute photos or puppetry.

    But these accounts are abandoned once the attention well dries up. The account credentials are soon forgotten and within a few years the accounts are garbage collected by inactivity pruning algorithms, or hacked and disabled. In any case, they’re long gone by the time the kid comes of age.

    E: So basically zero. These pampers influencers simply created a new account.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 month ago

    Doesn't hinder Meta to match the data they acquire to the dormant account. They have an account for everyone - if you actually created one is not important.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 month ago

    The smart ones

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    …what? Parents created accounts for their children to grow into and eventually take over? Are they squatting and just keeping them reserved or posting as “hi I’m turning 1 - I love this smash cake!” - is this a real thing?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago

    I had an acquittance who made a profile for her son while she was pregnant, profile picture was an ecography and she would sometimes post roleplaying as the baby. I'm glad we're not in touch anymore.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    I started college when Facebook launched. Yes, this is a thing that happened. There was a legal case where a girl sued her parents for making a Facebook profile in her name when she was a baby and posting photos without her permission.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    My sister had a baby young while in college. Her and the father split up not long after. The father's new girlfriend made an account for their baby. It was wierd. So wierd, and pissed my sister off to no end.

    Yes, the girlfriend would post like she was the baby. It was, the wierdest shit.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    I worked for this weird lady who was then in her mid 40es who tried really hard to be 20. She had somwthing between 3 and 7 children and the oldest one was maybe 14. She was pretty proud to tell me that she has instagram, facebook, whatever accounts for all her children to gift them to their 14th birthday.

    Her house was my personal nightmare. She had a lot of pictures of herself and her children on the walls, but all of them were heavy edited and filtered to death.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    My dad created an account for me for basically everything on the Conglomonet, Facebook, Microsoft (And Outlook for my Email), Apple, Google, etc.

    Never used any of them.

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    I've never even used Facebook and I'm in my mid 40s.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Same. I mean i think i did in 2007 when someone said: everyone is using facebook. Used it for like 2 days and deleted it. Nowadays people straight up don't believe you if you tell them that you don't use social media.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Not without consent, Bob.

    Not. Without. Consent.

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  • [+] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)