Facebook has launched its Craigslist and eBay competitor, a new feature called the Marketplace. The feature lets a person browse things to buy from individuals who live nearby, and quickly list their own things for sale.

People have already been using the renowned social media for a long time. But Marketplace arranges accordingly the casual function, and indicates just how important these trading posts are for the Facebook's plans, according to Wired.

But people are already using the Marketplace to brazenly sell things that violate Facebook's policies, which includes drugs, as well as animals and adult services.

For instance, people already saw some listings in the Marketplace for snakes, fish, baby hedgehogs, a farm hand, and scantily clad people posing suggestively, based on the report of Business Insider.

A Facebook spokesperson declined to comment about the issue, instead the spokesperson pointed out to the Facebook's Commerce Policy, which expressly bans selling these kinds of stuffs and services.

However, Marketplace has just launched in the United States, UK, New Zealand and Australia on mobile, but the new Facebook feature could roll out around the world and on the web.

Marketplace product manager Bowen Pan stated that he thinks the widespread presence of Craigslist shows there's a great need for a local commercial product.

While there's no Pages allowed on the new feature right now, the social network company could one day generate ad revenue if it allows businesses or people buy News Feed ads.

Pan stated that after they are confident that they've built out a great product experience for people, they will look into introducing businesses if it makes sense, Tech Crunch reported.

Anyway, the company is betting big on Marketplace, considering that the new feature is replacing the Messenger shortcut in Facebook for iOS. Facebook continues its never ending quest to dominate the internet, as they create their own versions of every popular activity on the web.

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