The problem of so-called fake accounts is gaining more and more scope. Now it is very difficult to distinguish the page of a real person from the page of his imitator. The same thing happens with the pages of famous companies. During their quarterly report, the leadership of the largest social network in the world reported that about 10% of all Facebook user accounts are fakes.
Most often, such tricks are used by scammers or those people who really want to swim in the glory of a particular star. Even glancing at our domestic VKontakte network, one can find a dozen pages belonging to one or another celebrity. Also, people resort to creating fake accounts in order to please someone. Girls love to publish other people's photos instead of their own, if they are not satisfied with their own appearance. Thus, they bathe in men's compliments and increase their self-esteem. The reasons for people creating such fakes can be listed almost infinitely.
Some social networks solve the problem of fake accounts very simply: they ask for confirmation from the user, who must identify his identity. If the confirmation is not received within the specified time frame - the page is simply deleted or blocked. For example, in the Twitter service, you can immediately understand - a real account or a fake by the presence of a tiny check mark to the right of the user name. Thus, some social networks are still trying to fight the incessant stream of fake users.
Facebook management published official social network statistics during its quarterly report. About 1.23 billion people use the service per month, and about 757 million people visit their pages every day. 556 million people view their accounts daily using mobile phones. Of all these users, according to company experts, approximately 5.5 to 11.2% are fakes. It turns out that about 67 to 137 million people on Facebook are not who they say they are.
In addition to statistics on fake accounts, some more interesting figures were published: from 4.3 to 7.9% of pages are duplicates of existing ones. This is when the user forgets the password from the old page and creates a new one with the same name. Approximately 0.8–2.1% are unclassified pages that were created not for use by an individual, but for some other purpose, for example, to register on any site you need to have a Facebook account. From 0.4 to 1.2% of pages in general directly violate the rules of the social network, and this is somewhere from 5 to 14 million accounts.
Be that as it may, no one can calculate and censor all “Internet fakes” on such a gigantic social network. But in any case, the numbers turned out very curious. Do not believe all that we see every day on the web.
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