The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

WORLD WIDE WEB-It seems like everyone is on social media. These days there are several newer or emerging social media platforms, but Facebook, the classic, is still maintaining its foothold with 2.37 billion active users.

In recent years, Facebook has worked to create transparency in its user base. They've chosen to focus on verified first and last names as opposed to Instagram handles, for instance. Funkyjazzguy88 is now John Smith.

Doing away with creative usernames makes their platform-within-a-platform, Facebook Marketplace, a viable solution to find and make offers for items directly thro...