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>* those fake profiles are still real humans, right?* This is true. I'm more thinking along the lines of "we have 1 billion active users!" >you can still do
by forgetsusername 11y ago
>* those fake profiles are still real humans, right?*
This is true. I'm more thinking along the lines of "we have 1 billion active users!"
>you can still do demographic targeting, no?
This I'm not so sure about. Some targeting, sure. But the fake profiles make it more difficult, since the demographic data is also fake.
- meeper16 11y agoThese are completely fake, synthetic profiles. This is why you can buy them here: https://www.google.com/search?q=buy+facebook+accounts&oq=buy+facebook+accounts&aqs=chrome.0.69i59.3415j0j1&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8 https://www.google.com/search?q=buy+facebook+accounts&oq=buy...
- cwyers 11y agoFrom the post that I was replying to, posted by the person you're replying to: > Indeed. I was working for a Facebook gaming company around 2010. Through the "recruit a friend" bonuses and "have X friends click this" mechanics, there were incentives to simply make fake accounts to obtain the goals. We looked at our users and figured about half were fake Facebook accounts. I have to imagine the numbers for other companies, like Zynga, were similar, as they used the same mechanics. You're NOT talking about the same thing.