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pygy_ on Aug 26, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Design Tricks Facebook Uses To Affect Your Privacy...

You don't have to use the same account for everything.

I have one for social interactions with all privacy settings maxed out (including opting out of the Facebook platform [0]), and one for apps, with no friends.

The same goes for Twitter. http://twitter.com/loganloginski

[0] Otherwise the apps of your friends have access to your data.

_pghu on Aug 26, 2012 | [–]

It's against the Facebook ToS to have more than one account.

X-Istence on Aug 26, 2012 | | [–]

Facebook recently caught up with me and all of my "fake" accounts.

dredmorbius on Aug 26, 2012 | [–]

That assumes there's no way to (or interest in) linking accounts.

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