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In the discussion thread: Facebook estimates 83 million profiles are fake [View all]

Response to Playinghardball (Original post)

Fri Aug 3, 2012, 07:53 AM

Heywood J (2,209 posts)

35. Bullshit.

Every person I know with a Facebook account has at least five. Couple that with everyone else in this thread referring to the games, cats, birds, employer-friendly accounts, etc. and I don't believe for a second that any less than 33% of accounts are fake. How many of the rest are deleted (but not removed from the statistics) or outdated?

Or does "undesirable" include people too poor to market to?

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38 replies	Author	Time	Post
Facebook estimates 83 million profiles are fake [View all]	Playinghardball	Aug 2012	OP
Fake profiles are people my friend	ThoughtCriminal	Aug 2012	#1
It's a sock monkey and her name is, Monkeeh.	Arctic Dave	Aug 2012	#9
Bwahahahahahahahah!	crim son	Aug 2012	#38
That sounds about what I expected	Posteritatis	Aug 2012	#2
83 Million and 1	Right Hand of Dog	Aug 2012	#3
LOL!	Gman	Aug 2012	#22
I'd say FB's estimate is probably low. Embelish, embelish, embelish.	Raster	Aug 2012	#4
Agreed - When I used to play Farmville - friends set up multiple accounts so I had like 100 fake	Hestia	Aug 2012	#6
I have a few of those	LadyHawkAZ	Aug 2012	#7
sounds like membership in the Tea Party	tomm2thumbs	Aug 2012	#5
Not all the info on mine is real.	hobbit709	Aug 2012	#8
My dogs and my second life avatar all have pages	TrogL	Aug 2012	#10
I have one of those "duplicate" accounts	Hugabear	Aug 2012	#11
Not a bad idea especially in the US	davidpdx	Aug 2012	#36
Just posted this on Facebook so my friends pets can read it, LOL	just1voice	Aug 2012	#12
I'll bet a lot of people have a "fake" in their real name to show employers	McCamy Taylor	Aug 2012	#13
Clearly, that means it's time to buy stock in Facebook.	DCKit	Aug 2012	#14
83 million valued at $100 per for the IPO,	Downwinder	Aug 2012	#15
Where's Captain Obvious when you need him?	liberaltrucker	Aug 2012	#16
Ummm, I believe he's posting over on Facebook as General Failure.	Major Hogwash	Aug 2012	#37
I keep one dummy account.	AtheistCrusader	Aug 2012	#17
Probably correlates with 83 million fake people.	Lint Head	Aug 2012	#18
I made one for my pet so it could be my neighbor in CityVille.	Ian David	Aug 2012	#19
do we now call it	UpInArms	Aug 2012	#20
All followers of Mitt the twit.	sarcasmo	Aug 2012	#21
What does that make the BILLIONS	newblewtoo	Aug 2012	#23
Imagine the Fakes at Yahoo	bucolic_frolic	Aug 2012	#24
I wonder why they waited till after the big stock sale to disclose this?	tabasco	Aug 2012	#25
I have about ten fakes.	MrSlayer	Aug 2012	#26
Our Ecletus parrot Paco has a ton of other bird friends.	L0oniX	Aug 2012	#27
Like mine...	Ron Obvious	Aug 2012	#28
Even with the fake accounts, it looks like they're about to hit a billion	tridim	Aug 2012	#29
if you can believe that number	wordpix	Aug 2012	#30
Well, there is my......	desolatebloodshed	Aug 2012	#31
"8.7 percent of its 955 million monthly active users..."	klook	Aug 2012	#32
It's almost a necessity if you play Facebook games	apples and oranges	Aug 2012	#33
Fake? Fake? Why, I never...	Warren DeMontague	Aug 2012	#34
Bullshit.	Heywood J	Aug 2012	#35

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