If you want to represent your business, organisation, brand or product on Facebook, you can use your personal account to create and manage a Page.
We have a diametrically conflicting policy, by which personal accounts absolutely may not be used to manage company resources, for exactly the aforementioned reasons of minimising blast radius; so, we basically gave up on Facebook.
The double standard is evident: can you imagine any FAANG security team allowing a major corporate communications channel to be owned by a personal account? Answer: no; because doing something that fucking stupid would be a disciplinary offence.
Yep, I wanted to set up a Facebook page for my company, but as I don't want a personal Facebook account, I figured it wasn't worth it because it
would end up being fake info, and they could then just shut it down.
It seems like a risk with Google too. It's common to be logged into Google/Gmail with multiple Google accounts. Even with separate Google accounts, Google can tell they are related and could potentially ban them too.
A quick web search came up with Google's "associated account ban":
> "Associated account ban" means not just explicit account linkages, but also implicit ones, where a wife can be banned for the misbehavior of her husband
Legit question: is there any other service/company on earth that bans you for having multiple accounts? This seems like an insanely restrictive policy. One of the defining characteristics of internet communication is that you can have a “work persona” and a “home persona” and maybe another one for your hobbies, another one for your porn browsing and gambling, another one for your aunts and uncles. To deny this basic, universal concept is backwards and frankly shouldn’t be acceptable to anyone.
Internet companies have decided to deny this right the moment they figured out that your identity is valuable. Nowadays Google and FB, among others, will punish you if you use different online identities without their knowledge.
And while I love complaining about policies and behavior of FB, Google, Amazon etc, this one makes sense.
Almost always you ban person, not account - so standard is to allow one account or to require accounts to be clearly linked (for example, a separate bot account that is clearly declared).
GitHub disallows multiple free accounts in the TOS, meaning identity separation seemingly implies a continuous subscription cost forever. I'm not aware of any high-profile enforcement, but it's there.
It would be so ridiculous for Microsoft to have a one identity policy because Microsoft software accounts are generally provided by employers and tied to them, I have 4 MS identities (personal, two companies and university) and MS does not provide an option to use a single identity for that.
You can create Page accounts directly, which are not "people", so they aren't subject to that policy. They also do not have access to the same features, however.
I wouldn’t do this with Facebook. Creating a second account is against Facebook policy, and they may ban both accounts.