You can now make officially sanctioned test accounts
Full details are posted on the wiki here:
http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php?title=Test_Accounts
but here is the short version of the important parts:
To make a test account, register on Facebook as you normally would.
Then, when logged in to the test account, go to this URL:
http://www.facebook.com/developers/become_test_account.php
A few important things to note:
- * Test accounts won't be able to see real Facebook users and vice versa. You can make an existing account a test account, but if that account is friends with a real account, each user will disappear from the other's list of friends.
- * Our customer support team won't disable test accounts for being fake, but test accounts may be disabled for violating any other reason that a real account would be disabled.
- * Only real accounts may be listed as application owners. In other words, you may not list a test account as the developer of an app.
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