Yes, facebook will punish you for attempt to sign up.
Especially if you selected to sign up without mobile phone number.
And my brand new account without phone number has been suspended like within hour after creation.
They required video selfie to prove me I am not a robot.
I guess it is possible to trick this if you need to, when you have “state actor” scale of resources.
But even after that I got email scream from FB they decided to block my account and demand to verify it. But I can’t do anythng about that, nor “prove I don’t want to use the
I created it because I live in Georgia country where like 99.99% people use this just to communicate via FB messenger, and for insta to communicate with local businesses which are using that either as messaging platform at their websites or they use insta as storefront.
Sometimes even to schedule an appointment to a medical clinic without waiting for hour on call (old-fashioned approach)may require communication via FB messenger.
PS: It finally accepted my video selfie.
I feel like every new accounts go through something like this.
