Facebook May Soon Allow You To Have Five Separate Profiles For Your Other Sides

Weeks ago, Meta announced it will no longer be requiring Quest VR users to connect to a Facebook account to access the headset. 

Now, reports have emerged that the social media platform has another plan up its sleeve to help revive activity on the network: allowing users to have up to five profiles tied to a main account.

As BGR notes, the premise does make sense, with certain users finding it more convenient if they were able to spread out their posts based on who’s following them. For example, a work profile could be separate from a personal one. That’s why we have LinkedIn and Twitter accounts.

Although it seems like this is a way to boost account signups by fivefold, Bloomberg reports that these additional profiles will not be included in the way Facebook logs its monthly or daily active users. 

As part of an ongoing test, certain users will be allowed to create four additional profiles, without the need to include one’s true identity in each of the satellite accounts, though it will still be tied back to a main account. 

This means if one of the accounts is caught for violating the platform’s guidelines, the others will be affected as well. 

Will this plan clutter up the social network further, or will it incentivize greater correspondence and activity on posts? Meta is sure hoping it’s the latter.

[via BGR and Bloomberg, cover image via Dimarik16 | Dreamstime.com]