If you have been Facebooking on behalf of your pampered pooch via his own Facebook profile, or have been playing it safe with a separate Facebook profile for coworkers only, then you may want to get as much use out of it as possible before it is deleted. It appears that Facebook is going to disable the over 83 million fake Facebook profiles that are currently inflating their numbers.
Facebook’s regulatory filings from earlier this month shows that 8.7% of Facebook’s 955 million monthly active users are accounts that are fake. On top of that, approximately 4.8% of Facebook accounts are duplicate accounts. That is over 45 million accounts, which are technically a no-no in Facebook land.
While some may find it unfortunate to lose Fido’s account, or that duplicate account they save for only work-friendly posts, the upside is that Facebook is also getting rid of the accounts that have been created strictly to spam Facebook users. This could lead to a welcome reduction in spam, which is a bonus for everyone.
Do be aware, if you have a duplicate account that ends up getting deleted by Facebook, you won’t be allowed to create another account with Facebook’s permission. Those who are sad to see Fido’s account disappear, don’t forget you can create a Facebook page so that his fans can still follow his ball-chasing endeavors.
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Please update this to explain how they determine what is fake or not. Also, this is not good news for freedom of speech considering many main stream media sites only allow commenters with Facebook accounts and that means everyone now has to use their real names to say anything. That right there is a violation of free speech. Sure a company can do what it wants as its free speech, but this can mean a big corporate corralling of everyone into having to identify themselves everywhere online.
How would they know my “fake” account is fake? The only thing fake about it is my name and I did that years ago so old classmates, former friends, etc., couldn’t search for me by name. On my real (business) account, old classmates, former friends and former clients have found me. But that’s not such a bad thing since it’s a business profile and has mainly my judge and lawyer friends.