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I ended up making a burner account for this. I used a proton mail address and a plausible but fake name. My vpn kept getting flagged for special review where they, I shit you not, want you to send in a photo of a government ID. Eventually I found a VPN server that, for whatever reason, got passed this.
Then I spent 15 minutes hiding and locking every privacy setting I could find because I really didn't want to be shown to other people as a potential "friend".
I use the account just to monitor local emergencies and whatnot. An infuriating amount of local businesses and services only use facebook.
Dang, I tried a few times and gave up with Facebook. Guess I'll try again. I loathe how everyone uses Facebook marketplace. Rip Craigslist
I can skip over any business that only has a Facebook page. Plenty of choices out there...
What I can't skip is when a political candidate is only on Facebook. I can't count the number of times I was trying to research candidates for local election and found they only had their policies on a locked Facebook page. Infuriating doesn't describe it.
Not for me unfortunately. There's a number of businesses with zero online presence. They maybe have a facebook page with one entry congratulating Becky's son Roger for graduating with the class of 2015, and that's how you find the phone number. It's like the 90s again, except there's no phone book now. I don't understand it. These guys must be making a living purely off the business they get at church.
The guy who dug my well asked why I decided on him specifically and I said, "Honestly? You're the only one who returned my call." I asked him why guys with a lease on a million dollar drill rig wouldn't return calls and he wasn't sure.
I really didn't want to interface with Facebook at all but, fuck me. I have to join the Ruritan Club, or some shit, just to find an electrician.
did you hear the latest from proton ceo? ugh
Yeah, disappointing.