It Didn’t Take Long for Facebook Marketplace to Get Weird

Yesterday, Facebook launched its newest feature called Marketplace — a direct competitor to the widely popular Craigslist. The idea was to take the “buy and sell” groups that 450 million users are already using and create a whole new tab in the app for peer-to-peer shopping.

Much like Craigslist, the idea was to create a shared space for people to buy and sell goods in an easy to use, safe environment. And much like Craigslist, that didn’t last long. Within a day, the Marketplace was flooded with ads for drugs, sex, animals, and a number of other weird things that are supposed to be banned from the app.

Pittsburgh's Facebook Marketplace is classic Pittsburgh weird. http://pic.twitter.com/JjSLFf4Zd9

— Jeremy Kanter (@jeremykanter) October 4, 2016

@amberyouwot they were on Facebook marketplace this morning lol http://pic.twitter.com/Ew5avraNLB

— Haley Stewart (@Helllllas) September 24, 2016

Facebook Marketplace is off to a great start. http://pic.twitter.com/EkGdbWl7vI

— Jon Steinberg (@jonsteinberg) October 3, 2016

Thank you Facebook Marketplace for giving me the opportunity to buy babies or guns… http://pic.twitter.com/4g08zXkpmk

— Zack Neiner (@ZackNeiner) October 3, 2016

facebook marketplace is already popping http://pic.twitter.com/Qc1joZAthD

— vex. (@yungvexed) October 3, 2016

Someone is literally selling tamales on the Facebook marketplace http://pic.twitter.com/FgDC6tTn2v

— Jud (@the23jud) September 21, 2016

Facebook Marketplace is everything I dreamed it would be! http://pic.twitter.com/SjEKgaDnmz

— Good Boy Inc. (@Dank_Pal) October 3, 2016

@MikeIsaac back in NY we have to just buy our drugs on Facebook http://pic.twitter.com/K52j7RUlz7

— Tim Bernal (@tombornal) October 3, 2016

look at the high quality goods and services being offered on the Facebook marketplace near me http://pic.twitter.com/znRY1RdJih

— spooky anson (@AnsonLongSeabra) September 8, 2016

Thanks, Facebook. http://pic.twitter.com/qPEhbUmZHj

— Zach Kahn ? (@zkahn94) October 3, 2016

You see guys, this is why we can’t have nice things.

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Written by: editor - Tuesday, October 4, 2016