83 Million Facebook Fake Accounts Will Be Deleted Soon ...
In an recent regulatory filing
Facebook said 8.7 percent of its 955 million monthly active users
worldwide are fake or false accounts.And these accounts will be
deleted/disabled soon.
Yeah! You heard right.If you have more then one facebook
account or you are maintaining another account for your pet etc.then
you are one of the 83 million fake accounts that fb going to delete
soon.There's should be fan pages for your cat,business or institute not
personal profile.
In an recent interview Facebook chief security officer Joe Sullivan told
CNN
that "On Facebook we have a really large commitment in general to
finding and disabling false accounts, and "Our entire platform is based
on people using their real identities".
Facebook has divided these fake accounts in three categories as follows-
1.
Duplicate Accounts
2.
Misclassified Accounts
3.
Undesirable Accounts
Duplicate accounts on fb make 4.8 % (45.8 million) of active
users.They are treated duplicate accounts because according to Social
site's TOS (Terms Of Service) users are not allowed to keep more than
one personal accounts and can not create any new account on behalf of
any other person.
Misclassified Accounts are the accounts that are made for
Brands,Companies,Pets etc.These type of accounts (22.9 million) are
allowed on the social site as Page but not as personal profile.You can
create as many pages as you want for your pets,business etc.However,these personal profile can be converted into approved pages without losing any information.While converting personal profiles in to
pages friends will become the fans of the page.
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Undesirable Accounts are just 1.5% of total active users but
according to facebook these are most troublesome and site thinks these
are created just for spamming.
Facebook told they will disables these
fake accounts and will
wipes all the information from these accounts but will not delete it due
to some safety and security reasons.Even the users of these accounts
can't get his/her data like posts,photos and videos in any way.They also
told once your account disabled you can't create new account without
permission from the site.
Readers: What you think about facebook this decison?Don't they
should implement it before?Will this brings transparency in the social
site?Share with us in the below comments.
Source - CNN