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Create a Facebook account without giving your contact information

There are many scandals around privacy or the leakage of user data from all kinds of applications, including social networks. Mark Zuckerberg himself was implicated in the Cambridge Analytica scandal over various security flaws on Facebook. After all this it is still possible to create a profile on the social network without having to enter our phone number or email, albeit with limitations.

The aforementioned Cambridge Analytica case put the Facebook owner on the ropes. In fact, Zuckerberg had to attend the United States Senate to answer several questions about the filtering and use of personal data of thousands of users of its social network to influence the intention to vote in the North American elections by taking over the management of the profiles without their users being aware of it.

These events have increased the security and privacy of the profiles of the famous social network and we need to verify our identity at all times. This problem is not exclusive to Facebook, many other social networks have suffered data leaks and passwords of their users. Regardless, it is still possible to create a profile in which We do not have to add the phone number or our email.

What we must keep in mind

If we want create a new account on Facebook we only need to enter the email or phone number to verify our identity, it is not necessary to have to enter both data.

This is why, in order not to have to enter our usual contact information, we can create a new email account specifically to create a profile on Mark Zuckerberg’s social network and we will keep our privacy safe. We can also use a line of different mobile phone to ours, but hiring an additional line is more expensive in time and money.

The best option to create a Facebook profile without having to indicate our email or phone number is by creating one test account on the social network. In this way we can do the necessary tests that we consider. If the intention is to impersonate another person to contact other profiles anonymously or send messages and comments without revealing our identity, it is probably not possible due to the limitations of this type of account and the security filters themselves and privacy applied by Facebook to protect “real” users.

What is a trial account

The Facebook test profile allows its users to register with a different profile, without the need to enter any type of personal data. The objective is to allow the option of use the account to check for security vulnerabilities. If you doubt about the reliability of third-party applications on the social network or need to test the security of your profile, this may be a good idea.

In case you cannot generate the environments you need to do your security tests, you will need to use your real profile. The creation of test identities belongs to the Bug Bounty Program developed by the social network itself. This program allows you to send information about vulnerabilities and security problems found on Facebook, offering rewards and academic training.

Limitations

Test profiles are intended for test security vulnerabilities and not to the use of false identities to interact with other users or pages of the social network. That is why these types of profiles have some specific limitations and characteristics that we should be clear about:

They can never interact with real accounts, only with other test identities.
They are not subject to the fake account detection From Facebook.
They will not be blocked by anti spam filters of the social network.
They won’t be able to click the button I like it or any other link that shows emotions about Network Pages posts.
They can not post content on the walls of other Facebook pages.
They can never become real accounts.

Because these profiles have a specific and specific objective, Facebook it will also not allow you to change the identity of the profile Test by entering another name to prevent spoofing. Yes, you can add your own profile photo, your description, likes, interests, etc.

Other applications of the Bug Bounty Program

The ability to detect security vulnerabilities through test profiling is only part of the program. We can also visit other sections What:

Thanks: section that welcomes the responsible disclosure to users of the social network.
Hacker Plus Program: program that encourages anyone who discovers security vulnerabilities with rewards in the form of bonuses for the App, attendance at events with all expenses paid, access to news and new applications before other users and much more.
Academic training and payment rules: Information about the rewards program and the payments that are made as incentives.
Report Vulnerability Form: If you have discovered a security problem or vulnerability, you must fill out this form.
Researcher Profile: This is your profile within the Bug Bounty Program where the history of reported vulnerabilities appears.
FBDL: this is the guide to know how to reproduce different types of actions and events that will allow you to discover security vulnerabilities in case there are any.
Manage test account: for you to change the password or create new test profiles.

How to create a trial account

The first thing we must take into consideration is that we will have connected with our usual profile of the social network to be able to access the test account manager. Once connected with our profile We will follow these steps to create a Facebook profile without email or phone number:

We entered the test account manager from the Bug Bpunty Program.
In the left side menu we will click on Manage test accounts.
At the top we will click on the button Create new account (This step is only possible from the web browser in the desktop version).
We will wait a few seconds and a pop-up window will appear with all the data of the new test configuration: name and surname, identifier of the test user, email and password (we write down the contact information).

We press the button To close.

In this way, we will return to the test profile manager where the new profile we have created. In order to use this new test profile, we have to close the open session with our real profile and access with the email and password that the social network has provided us to access the new profile.

If we have not entered that data or if we want to establish a different password we can go to test account manager and click on the button Change Password. This will reopen the pop-up window with the profile data and a new random password generated by the application. If we access the Configuration menu of the test account that we have created, accessing with the new email and the new password, we will see how options are more limited than in the actual profiles.