many of us has facebook accounts and use it when we have free time.facebook is a good way to connect with friends .but do u knowa website said that About 83 million Facebook accounts are fake, "the embattled social network stated in a recent Securities and Exchange Commission filing".
last week company reported that it had 955 million active users. However, in Facebook's 10-Q filing published Wednesday night, the company admitted that about 8.7 percent of these accounts were fake.
That translates to 83.09 million fake accounts.in march they said that 5-6% accounts were fake which at the time meant that between 42 million to over 50 million user profiles were not real.
A Facebook spokerspon said in a statement to CNBC THAT ""While we recently refined and improved our methodology for recognizing what we call duplicate or false accounts, we believe this does not change the return on investments we deliver to advertisers,Facebook has dedicated teams that are constantly monitoring and removing false accounts".
facebook has divided fake accounts in 3 categories:
1:4.8 percent of monthly active users were "duplicate accounts," which is an account that a user maintains in addition to their primary account.
2.about 2.4 percent of the monthly active user accounts were "misclassified accounts," or accounts that represent an entity besides the user, such as a business or college or school or religions or a pet.
3.about 1.5 percent of the accounts were "undesirable accounts," or accounts that purposely violate Facebook's terms of service, such as spamming.
Facebook does allow profiles for businesses, organizations and other entities. However, users are supposed to use a Facebook Page instead of a personal profile for these purposes, according to the filing.
last week company reported that it had 955 million active users. However, in Facebook's 10-Q filing published Wednesday night, the company admitted that about 8.7 percent of these accounts were fake.
That translates to 83.09 million fake accounts.in march they said that 5-6% accounts were fake which at the time meant that between 42 million to over 50 million user profiles were not real.
A Facebook spokerspon said in a statement to CNBC THAT ""While we recently refined and improved our methodology for recognizing what we call duplicate or false accounts, we believe this does not change the return on investments we deliver to advertisers,Facebook has dedicated teams that are constantly monitoring and removing false accounts".
facebook has divided fake accounts in 3 categories:
1:4.8 percent of monthly active users were "duplicate accounts," which is an account that a user maintains in addition to their primary account.
2.about 2.4 percent of the monthly active user accounts were "misclassified accounts," or accounts that represent an entity besides the user, such as a business or college or school or religions or a pet.
3.about 1.5 percent of the accounts were "undesirable accounts," or accounts that purposely violate Facebook's terms of service, such as spamming.
Facebook does allow profiles for businesses, organizations and other entities. However, users are supposed to use a Facebook Page instead of a personal profile for these purposes, according to the filing.