You can now make officially sanctioned facebook test accounts. This is really good news for developers that need to run applications through QA and look at behaviors of applications from multiple users test environments..

Full details are posted on the Facebook Developers wiki here:

Here are the high points 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.

Happy Testing and Keep Creating!… This is good news as it will enhance the facebook applications being developed and give developers a bigger sandbox to play in.

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