tabookfaced

and secure the communications and not be centralized.

don't waste your time with this, it's an overhyped attempt at being facebook which is not what it should.

have a look at the freedom box instead: https://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/

First, I don't believe these accounts have been hacked. The most common hack is the owner left a computer with his account logged in. Eithet that or the owner tried to log from a different location than those facebook associated with the account.

Have a look at how websites which don't require real name and identities do it and there you have your answer. (Or just look at how facebook does it other than requiring ID).

that's the beauty of it, once they've started providing data and build contacts using the service, you can require more identifying data and they will provide it not to lose what they already invested. Even threatening to lock them out of their data will work.

It's a common escalation in scams and emotional abuse.

Under the guise of user protection "we've locked your account to protect it from suspicious activity, prove you are the owner" they actually confirm the identity they're not sure about and force those who use false names, pseudonyms or multiple accounts to switch to real names or risk being locked out of their contacts and data.

Reducing false accounts and such increases valuation of the data they sit on. When you buy a database of people on the black market it either comes in cheap truckloads of unverified data or expensive chest of verified detailed accounts.

Because it's supposedly antisocial behaviour as you don't follow the herd and it has been noted that high profile serial killers and mass murderers don't have facebook.

To me it's either people who can't be bothered or people who actually care, are knowledgeable enough and value their time and privacy.

Never ever registering or browsing facebook was the obvious thing to do, at least it is for people who have been around and online for a while. It's the total opposite of the web and the internet, not pseudymous, centralized, using shady tactics to grow, spamming at times and so on. I don't care everybody, their grandma and their dog have an account, until it is decentralized p2P, encrypted and my data stays my own and in my own vicinity, I won't be part of so called "social network" services/websites. I have email already.