I'm Addicted to Facebook Marketplace. Here Are My Tips For Buyers and Sellers

My name is Sam, and I’m addicted to Facebook Marketplace. My last Facebook post is dated October 22, 2016. It’s a photo of me at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, which I had cross-posted from Instagram, cringe-worthy caption included (“#GettyInspired,” like, what does that mean?). My profile and cover photos are also ancient—like, pre-Trump presidency ancient—the latter being a picture of me and my sorority sisters in 2015.I’m now in my thirties, but my Facebook remains frozen in time, the passing years marked only by annual birthday wishes from “friends” and high school teachers (mostly high school teachers) long forgotten. But no matter my apathy for Facebook as a social media platform, or my antipathy for the hell Mark Zuckerberg hath wrought, I can’t bring myself to delete my account. Because although I don’t post, I don’t comment, I don’t even “like”—I open the Facebook app no less than three times a day thanks to Facebook Marketplace.Since 2020, I’d estimate I’ve conducted upwards of 100 transactions with the great buyers and sellers of Marketplace. My circumstances were unique—in 2020, I took it upon myself to furnish a 120-year-old colonial house my boyfriend purchased, and in 2021, I outfitted our Brooklyn
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