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The (small) difference with Google is that you can have a Google account without requiring any other services - just having a Google account doesn’t mean that you have to use email.

Facebook forces the use of its social network, and you can’t create an email without a profile. If you are inactive you can get banned.

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> If you are inactive you can get banned.

Do you have a source for this? I know a lot of folks who abandoned Facebook without deleting their accounts, I haven’t heard of any of them getting banned.

If you create a new account and don't use it it's flagged as spambot.

If a Facebook account has $200 worth of VR game purchases associated with it, that's unlikely to be a spam bot. I think the team that deals with spam prevention hasn't gotten the memo yet but they aren't stupid.

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