Facebook in a quarterly filing to the SEC, disclosed that about 5% of its 955 million members (monthly active users) have duplicate accounts and around 83 million of them are fake.
The team at WebSide have put together a wonderful Fakebook Infographics which provides a decent analysis on Facebook’s 83 million bogus users.
Here is what you need to understand about the different bogus accounts and why they are there:
Duplicate Accounts: These are users who forgot their old login details and created new account, users who maintain private profiles to hide information among others.
Misclassified Accounts: Business, Pet Dogs, which should really be setup as Facebook pages but instead setup as profiles.
SPAM Accounts: 1.5% of the total user on Facebook use to deliberately spread undesirable content such as spam and malicious link. Not to forget those companies and freelancers, who sell like loves to you!
What do you think about these recent growth in fake users on Facebook? Leave your comments below and Likes on Facebook, using your real account 🙂