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Netizens trying to sell items in Facebook Marketplace for the first time were completely locked out of the social network for 72 hours this week. The banishment appears to be a consequence of Facebook's desire to vet photos of Marketplace sellers. Facebook leaves content verification to its community because, as CEO Mark …

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  1. Ole Juul

    competition

    Sooner or later, Facebook will have a viable Craigslist competitor.

    This is bad. How many other services could Facebook eventually obliterate?

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    1. Mike Flugennock
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      Re: competition

      Competitor against Craigslist?

      M'eh, that ain't sayin' much.

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  2. Flakk
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    ...Kicked off the website and asked for a personal picture of myself to help identify who I was...

    That's totally not creepy.

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Anonymous Coward

      Re: ...creepy

      This picture is.... insufficient. Please take a picture from the rear, bent over slightly, pouting with a look that says "I didn't mean to be bad daddy, please be gentle".

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  3. Will Godfrey Silver badge
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    Want a photo?

    This couldn't possibly be abused, could it?

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Want a photo?

      Not if everyone decides to send in goatse as their pic. I see nothing wrong with that.

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      1. Flakk
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        Trollface

        Re: Want a photo?

        I wonder how many goatse pix it would take to turn that fancy sarcasm-detecting AI into Jame Gumb.

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  4. G R Goslin

    Is this.....?

    Is this the 'ID's', thing? I tried to log into my facebook account after a lapse of a few weeks, and was rather surprised to find that it had been disabled. On searching for a reason, I got a long list of conditions I was accused of breaking. Not one of which remotely applied to me. I was notified that I could "appeal", but the appeals page had an entry for (ID's), for which no explanation as to what constituted a valid entry was indicated. . Since I was only reluctantly enticed onto facebook, it seemed a good point to part company with this appalling concoction.

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  5. William 3 Bronze badge

    When I heard "send in personal pictures"

    I'm reminded of that episode of American Dad where Francine had to send in "personal pictures" to the "online doctor".

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  6. Mike Flugennock

    Picture? They want a PICTURE?

    Cripes, man, now I'm even more glad I ditched Facebook three or four years ago.

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  7. The Nazz

    Fraud Detection System.

    I see one, a fraud, right there.

    F... all to do with fraud detection and everything to do with building the ultimate profiling data set.

    And serve personalised ads ..........."Buy a years acne treatment for only $800".

    Mind you, having sent a pic of the ex i've now been locked out for 72 years. Aw bless 'em.

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  8. Winkypop Silver badge
    Big Brother

    Facebook

    Always creepy, never beaten.

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  9. Spudley

    Surely it's obvious -- they just want a picture of your face for their book.

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  10. David Nash Silver badge

    How does a picture help them "know who you are"?

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    1. John Brown (no body) Silver badge
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      Facial recognition across the entire facebook estate will likely identify, with a degree a certainty, many of their users who will be tagged in other photos. The 72 hours thing implies that there is some level of human interaction in the process.

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