I made a throwaway Facebook account for my Quest 1. Took me all of two minutes.
EDIT: Having read more comments below, I'm concerned that Facebook may eventually flag my throwaway account as "inauthentic" and revoke my access to all purchased Oculus software. The day that happens is the day I drop Facebook VR forever. No way am I linking my real-life identity to a platform full of angry gamers, some of whom may try to doxx and SWAT an opponent after a bad in-game experience.
They very explicitly said it has to be a “real name” account. Enough to make me question the strategy of a throwaway account. I bet they’re going to match your credit card against your FB profile to see if your account is authentic. At the minimum they’re going to require you to create an account with your real name.
The whole thing is sickening to me. Congress should unwind the Oculus purchase ASAP.
Last time I tried to make a throwaway it got flagged pretty quickly and they had me submit photos of myself. I just picked some from the internet and they permanently locked the account. I wouldn’t risk it considering I’d have assets tied to the account (games), which presumably would be lost if their all-powerful neural net were to take as input my account data and output a value higher than some threshold.
I do wonder how deep Facebook's tracking goes. I deleted my old account. A couple of years later, I had to make another one to advertise a new product I'm working on. I used my real name because it was tied to my FB advertising account, but I added no friends and shared zero details except for my address (again, required for the ad account).
Facebook's friend recommendations since then have been hilariously wrong. I thought they'd just track my location or use some complex algorithm to match me to old friends. But they don't seem to have a clue about any of it.
That's a strange barrier to entry. I haven't had a FB in years, and have zero interest in going back, not even for some great hardware.