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> Well, either that or facebook engineers are completely incompetent. Or they're making bank on dating site affiliate fees as a side hustle...

• 3np 5y ago
  They don’t need to. The increased time you spend in the site as a consequence is enough of an upside to look the other way.
  • disgruntledphd2 5y ago
    This really isn't true. Remember that FB has many, many users and (presumably) many, many scammers, so one would expect to see lots of scams. I too get those (messages lately) friend requests, and almost always by the time I read the message the account has been deactivated (when it says FB user). So, overall, I think they're doing a reasonably good job on this particular problem.
    • kabes 5y ago
      My experience is different. I have many times reported a profile like this. Exactly as described above, a child can see it's a scam account. And then a couple of days later got message that after review the profile doesn't violate the community standards.
      • disgruntledphd2 5y ago
        really? That's very odd (not that their reporting system sucks, it definitely does), but that you need to report it. Interesting that we have such different experiences, I wonder why that is. (remember that on FB, a 1 in a million event occurs approximately 3k times per day).