Yesterday, Facebook officially 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.

https://twitter.com/jeremykanter/status/783275576694038528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

https://twitter.com/jonsteinberg/status/783088782283313153

https://twitter.com/yungvexed/status/783050119495028736

https://twitter.com/the23jud/status/778707539672182790

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https://twitter.com/zkahn94/status/783030021334175744

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

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