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Advice on opening a Facebook account
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Posted on 10/21/2019 5:12:59 AM PDT by chrisser

I've managed to live without Facebook and Twitter.

However, we're in a rural area and apparently Facebook Marketplace is the place to go for local classifieds for buying/selling and for offering/finding services. I need someone to haul some scrap metal off our property and have hit a brick wall trying to find someone through my small network of contacts (I'm at a new job at month 4).

So I'm reluctantly considering opening a Facebook account, if only because the site's popups make it virtually unusable without one. I've also noticed a lot of local businesses don't have web sites in lieu of a Facebook page. I don't get it, but whatever.

Any advice on signing up and configuring the account to maximize my privacy and minimize annoyances?


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: facebook; vanity
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To: chrisser

You don’t need FB.
Period.


61 posted on 10/21/2019 7:29:21 AM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
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To: chrisser

You have learned well, grasshoppah...


62 posted on 10/21/2019 7:30:13 AM PDT by null and void (Convicted spies are shot, traitors are hanged, saboteurs are subject to summary execution...)
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To: chrisser

Yeah don’t!. Create a posting in Craigslist


63 posted on 10/21/2019 7:52:48 AM PDT by Bommer (2020 - Vote all incumbent congressmen and senators out! VOTE THE BUMS OUT!!!)
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To: Betty Jane
If it’s just for the one time, ask a friend to post the ad for you. Give them a small commission when it sells.

 

Excellent. Reposting in Large Font.

 

If it’s just for the one time, ask a friend to post the ad for you. Give them a small commission when it sells.


64 posted on 10/21/2019 8:04:47 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: MrEdd

Right.

Upthread others have said if you do Fakebook - be sure to use a burner email addy.

I would add - get a burner used laptop. And use free public wifi.


65 posted on 10/21/2019 8:10:37 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: chrisser

About having scrap hauled away.
You can’t expect to get money for it.
You have it hauled off and they keep the money or you can just keep your scrap.


66 posted on 10/21/2019 9:16:23 AM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
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To: chrisser

Have you tried asking someone at work to post it for you? Unless FB somehow blocks it, they could just say they are posting for a friend, and say to call you at your number. If you want the anonymization of Craigslist, make a CL ad and have your friend post a link to it and make it clear you are in the local area.

I would not use FB unless you use a VPN and know how to clear your cookies.


67 posted on 10/21/2019 10:01:02 AM PDT by beef (Caution: Potential Sarcasm - Process Accordingly)
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To: chrisser
Don't do it....

That's my advice...

68 posted on 10/21/2019 10:02:31 AM PDT by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: Lazamataz
I use a bunny rabbit...........

Ummmm...kinky.

69 posted on 10/21/2019 10:04:04 AM PDT by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: chrisser

You are correct. I used word of mouth and Craigslist to try to sell a car early this year. Failed. I then used Facebook marketplace and was getting multiple bites from hour 1. Sold the car in 3 days.
Use a fake email, set up fake information in your Facebook account. You’ll be fine. People buying and selling things these days use Facebook. A lot.


70 posted on 10/21/2019 10:41:55 AM PDT by vpintheak (I donÂ’t want to gain the whole world and lose my soul. - Toby Mac)
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To: a fool in paradise

Carlos Delecto is open maybe.


71 posted on 10/21/2019 7:53:50 PM PDT by matthew fuller ( WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO RETURN THE MONEY, QUID PRO JOE?)
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To: chrisser
"Advice on opening a Facebook account"

Don't.

Best advice you'll get all day and worth at least twice what you paid for it.

72 posted on 10/21/2019 9:29:21 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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