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"an account that a user maintains in addition to his or her principal account." The problem there is that a person trying hard to keep personas separate can do
by veyron 14y ago
"an account that a user maintains in addition to his or her principal account."
The problem there is that a person trying hard to keep personas separate can do so without Facebook being able to track (I assume they have to be more specific than just matching by IP address).
- ghshephard 14y agoRe: Matching IP address - given the prevalence of NAT, in which several thousand users will be associated with a single IP address - you can't rely on that. Cookies, on the other hand, or, browser-fingerprint-matching, probably can be used to identify these shill accounts. I wonder if Facebook knows how many of it's accounts are fake, or if they actively avoid looking into that information.
- Zimahl 14y agoThen again, while it is common for us 'computer folk' to have more than 1 computer, a lot of households have just 1 shared by many people. My sister's family has 1 shared computer with 3 Facebook users (soon to be 4 in a year or two).