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Probably half of that are fake profiles, profiles made by people for commercial purposes or bots. If you make fake account and you will start wandering in the e
by dotsh 9y ago
Probably half of that are fake profiles, profiles made by people for commercial purposes or bots. If you make fake account and you will start wandering in the endless facebook steppes, you will notice that many of them are one post account that advertise or play games. The best ones are those with pictures of known or lesser known models to collect friends and sell such an account for dollars later. I have reported several hundred of such profiles, of which maybe 1/20 have been blocked rest is fine because moderators can't see difference between real life person and photo from google images in 20 accounts in a row...
- philwelch 9y ago2.2 billion isn't the total number of accounts, it's the number of "monthly active users"--and Facebook would probably be in much hotter water than they are now if they cooked the books on that number.
- pkulak 9y agoBots are active though, right?
- ExcelSaga 9y agoYeah, but they’re not looking at ads or providing useful data for brokers.
- dotsh 9y agoThis don't change my comment still many of them are fakes. I know people who have 5-6 accounts active at one time playing different games with 500+ friends on it. Many of those "friends" also are fakes, some even with the same profile picture of "real person" with fake data but I have nothing against FB, every medium is abused. It's just interesting that not a single research was done on this topic that I know about. :)
- da02 9y agoWhy do your friends have 5+ accounts opened? To get around limits on games?
- themusicgod1 9y agoIt's good to have multiple identities. Make an effort to build a second, third or even a fourth or fifth identity if you have the time and patience to do so. It might save your life, or the life of someone you care of some day. Every group of friends/family should have at least one spare identity, just in case. http://82.221.128.217/audio/sktfm/wear_body_armour.mp3.32.ogg http://82.221.128.217/audio/sktfm/wear_body_armour.mp3.32.og...
- jensvdh 9y agoThere's no way I'm visiting that URL.
- finebalance 9y agoWhy is that? Is there something intrinsic in that url that is suspicious?
- cannonedhamster 9y agoPerson has a public karma of 59, using an IP to a direct VPS that allows bitcoin for payment. It has multiple business names in the DNS and points to a naked .ogg file. Yeah I wouldn't click on that either.
- dorgo 9y agoI used to create new accounts each time when I logged into facebook. Better than to remember passwords.
- dotsh 9y agoGame limits, not wanting to share private account with some random folks used in games or for commercial purposes aka selling account later on and I can tell that this business is booming! :)
- stctgion 9y agoI've heard that you count as a monthly active user if you sign into something else using your FB account. If true that would inflate the number quite a bit
- emodendroket 9y agoLet's assume that half of them are fakes. Now they have "only" 1.1 billion users every month. The number is still staggering.
- dotsh 9y agoYea, that is still a huge number, but for advertisers that use FB as a platform is a huge waste of money and FB could easily abuse that as well.
- emodendroket 9y agoAdvertisers in any medium probably have to accept that some people aren't paying any attention to the ad. High-viewership events cost more to advertise on, but a significant portion of the audience is going to wander off at any given commercial break.
- nvr219 9y agoyeah, at least 4 of those 2.2 billion are mine.