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And Just When I Thought I Could Trust Everything on the Intertubes…

Steven L. Taylor
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Via the BBC:  Facebook has more than 83 million ‘fake’ users

Facebook has revealed that it believes there are now more than 83 million fake users on the social network.

The shock of it all!

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4 responses to “And Just When I Thought I Could Trust Everything on the Intertubes…”

  1. wr Avatar
    wr

    And somehow all of them have “liked” Mitt Romney.

  2. Franklin Avatar
    Franklin

    I would say that all of the users are fake, in the social sense.

  3. Murray Avatar
    Murray

    I would be really interested to know how they came up with that estimate.

    Do they really believe there are close to a billion people who show themselves naked on their platform?

  4. Brett Avatar
    Brett

    I’ve always thought that the “X Million Users” figures were bloated with duplicate accounts, fake accounts, and company accounts. Heck, I have three separate Facebook accounts under different names/pseudonyms (I created two of them in an attempt to post on a blog that uses that irritating Facebook Commenting System). Now we have some actual numbers.

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