Fake content and Accounts on Facebook

Fake content and Accounts on Facebook

Facebook is a social media website where we can connect with people from different areas of your life. and we use Facebook every day. There are billions users every day and we can see many different information from them. They provide enough advertisement for the people. Even though our life has connected with Facebook, but the information we get from Facebook are not all real. There are lots of fake content and fake accounts.

Fake acconts- There could be no. of reason why one create a Fake account on Facebook. Some of them do it to hard others while others do it for fun and not particularly annoying anyone in that process. 

• Spamming and promotion of their stuff.
• A lots of people have two FB account, one is real and other is for testing purposes.
• Then there are people who had 4-5 FB accounts just to get more promotional offers from FB. (For example Freecharge give 50 rs free recharge when you login with your FB account)
• Some advertised make fake account for displaying ads on Facebook. (not sure why they do that)

From the research , we can find out Facebook Targets 76 Million Fake Users In War On Bogus Accounts,

In its annual report, Facebook said that the number of duplicate accounts on its network had risen to 5 percent of all accounts in Q4 2012, up from 4.8 percent in Q2 2012. However, the number of accidentally misclassified accounts and the number of abusive accounts (run by spammers and the like) has declined.

Overall, the total percentage of fake accounts declined from 8.7 percent to 7.2 percent. In whole numbers, the number of duplicate accounts went up from about 45.8 million to 52.8 million; but the total number of fake accounts (which includes abusive and misclassified accounts) declined from 83 million to 76 million over the last six months(Jim,2013)

Fake advertisement

When we use facebook, we can find there are lots od ad come up , this is a one way for the facebook making money, but  some of what we see the ad on the facebook  are fake ad, or the link give to us are not real. the ad we clicked on may be for counterfeit goods. That is some people take advantage social media tool to send their product to people. At first sight, the ads look legitimate and lead to websites that look like real ones, the researchers warned, potentially tricking average Facebook users into believing they're buying real products without realizing the danger. 

Facebook should do more, and must do more against this,"We should be careful when we receive the fake content from Facebook 

• Jim Edwards(2013,March). 
Facebook Targets 76 Million Fake Users In War On Bogus Accounts, Retrived from 

http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-targets-76-million-fake-users-in-war-on-bogus-accounts-2013-2