Watching Facebook Squirm

MisterF said:

Watching BBC and there's a representative of Facebook getting interviewed who reveals they have closed 600 million fake accounts.

The presenters says; that's 10 times of the UK population, and she replies but we are closing these quickly....

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Only Seo guys knows the fake profiles, they have created through botting. Even IG and youtube, google is full of fake profiles.

William702 said:

My 10 year old niece has several accounts and she isn't even old enough to have one. The amount of young children that have accounts must be in the 9 figures.

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Yeah if they start forcing even kids to submit photo ID, birth certificate, passport, fingerprints, etc then I think people will rebel.

I guess then the best way to make fake profiles would be to list your age as like 9 or 10

Pakman6666 said:

Yeah if they start forcing even kids to submit photo ID, birth certificate, passport, fingerprints, etc then I think people will rebel.

I guess then the best way to make fake profiles would be to list your age as like 9 or 10

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I thought 13 was the youngest age that can register an account. I could be wrong though.

William702 said:

I thought 13 was the youngest age that can register an account. I could be wrong though.

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You're probably right

No matter, how many they close, next year they will have again more number of accounts. So its waste of time to close accounts seriously.

adexnetwork said:

No matter, how many they close, next year they will have again more number of accounts. So its waste of time to close accounts seriously.

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Hardly. Look at all the threads started here on BHW with people bitching about losing accounts. It causes all sorts of problems for people and some just walk away. It's a huge deterrent for some people. Granted they may very well get as many new accounts next year but if they did nothing it would be a bigger problem I imagine.

That's just assuming people are marketing with them. People have fake accounts for all sorts of reasons, some good but lots are made to hide who a person is and what they are doing. Clearing a lot of that stuff up could be a good thing and lead to greener pastures, who knows. It could also lead to an Orwellian nightmare!

Pakman6666 said:

Yeah if they start forcing even kids to submit photo ID, birth certificate, passport, fingerprints, etc then I think people will rebel.

I guess then the best way to make fake profiles would be to list your age as like 9 or 10

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If something like that did happen It will more likely be the legal parent or guardian that has to have an ID on file for their child, not the child itself.