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I get one legitimate Facebook friend request for 20 fake ones. Would be nice if Facebook was better at detecting and pruning these people. Same goes for their

by Yhippa 10y ago

I get one legitimate Facebook friend request for 20 fake ones. Would be nice if Facebook was better at detecting and pruning these people. Same goes for their other product, Instagram. I want people to find my pictures I post on there but the amount of notifications I get not from interactions but from spam accounts adding me and liking my photos is very annoying.

ayuvar 10y ago
It's a little sad that I use the Instagram report-spam feature often enough that I become aware of subtle changes to its UI over the course of months. I feel bad for whoever has to handle the reports on the other side.
dimino 10y ago
That's interesting, because I get maybe 1 fake Facebook friend request per year? I think a lot of the problems people have with Facebook are based in how Facebook gets used. If you have 400 friends, you're simply not getting the same experience out of Facebook as a person with 60 friends is getting.
- ktRolster 10y ago
  >That's interesting, because I get maybe 1 fake Facebook friend request per year? Maybe he does too
- cgriswald 10y ago
  > That's interesting, because I get maybe 1 fake Facebook friend request per year? I get a few more than that, but the pattern is always the same. Profile picture is of an arguably attractive girl and we have a mutual friend. The mutual friend, in my case, is always one of a few guys who historically hasn't done well with women.
jeffmould 10y ago
I used to get a "fake" friend request a week on average with FB. Someone told me to hide my friends list entirely, meaning that I even my own friends can't see who I am friends with. As soon as I did that, I think I have gotten one or two fake ones in the last year. My only guess is that my friends' accounts are getting hacked and the hackers are just networking through their friends list and friend of friends lists and adding people along the way. As for IG, the amount of spam accounts is almost unbearable. To me it is next to Twitter with the number of accounts. IG I average about 3-4 spam (porn or sell me followers) accounts per day. With Twitter it seems to come in chunks. I'll go a few weeks without any and then one day I will get 50-60 follower notices from obvious spam accounts. With both it makes the user experience unpleasant.
- rtkwe 10y ago
  If they're able to tell before friending you that your friends list was blocked your account would be less valuable since they couldn't continue on to your friends.

by Yhippa 10y ago

ayuvar 10y ago

It's a little sad that I use the Instagram report-spam feature often enough that I become aware of subtle changes to its UI over the course of months. I feel bad for whoever has to handle the reports on the other side.

dimino 10y ago

That's interesting, because I get maybe 1 fake Facebook friend request per year? I think a lot of the problems people have with Facebook are based in how Facebook gets used. If you have 400 friends, you're simply not getting the same experience out of Facebook as a person with 60 friends is getting.

ktRolster 10y ago
>That's interesting, because I get maybe 1 fake Facebook friend request per year? Maybe he does too
cgriswald 10y ago
> That's interesting, because I get maybe 1 fake Facebook friend request per year? I get a few more than that, but the pattern is always the same. Profile picture is of an arguably attractive girl and we have a mutual friend. The mutual friend, in my case, is always one of a few guys who historically hasn't done well with women.

jeffmould 10y ago

I used to get a "fake" friend request a week on average with FB. Someone told me to hide my friends list entirely, meaning that I even my own friends can't see who I am friends with. As soon as I did that, I think I have gotten one or two fake ones in the last year. My only guess is that my friends' accounts are getting hacked and the hackers are just networking through their friends list and friend of friends lists and adding people along the way. As for IG, the amount of spam accounts is almost unbearable. To me it is next to Twitter with the number of accounts. IG I average about 3-4 spam (porn or sell me followers) accounts per day. With Twitter it seems to come in chunks. I'll go a few weeks without any and then one day I will get 50-60 follower notices from obvious spam accounts. With both it makes the user experience unpleasant.

rtkwe 10y ago
If they're able to tell before friending you that your friends list was blocked your account would be less valuable since they couldn't continue on to your friends.