A lot of online marketers have decided to create fake Facebook Profiles because of its great advantage of being the easy way to find friends (potential customers) each and every day and getting direct contact with them by messages.CNN on one of its articles on Social Media has declared that a total of 83.09 million fake accounts have been created. They have been created for various reasons, with a mixture of innocent and malicious purposes. Facebook has even tagged them into 3 categories: duplicated, misclassified and undesirable account.
What does Facebook think of fake Facebook accounts?
The duplicate account numbers have reached the 45 million mark of active members. These accounts are normally because people decide to create more than one account because they violated one of the rules and also create accounts for their children under 13 years of age, which is against Facebook’s terms of service.
The misclassified accounts (22 million) are personal accounts created for companies, pets, groups, topics, etc. These are the ones that Internet marketers create for marketing purposes. These types of personal accounts are ok according to Facebook, but Facebook has created the Pages platform for them. The great thing about these accounts is that you are able to convert them into Facebook Pages.
And the worst ones are the undesirable accounts (14 million). People have created these types of personal Facebook accounts for various malicious reasons like: spamming and other evil activities.
The duplicate or false accounts percentage is a lot higher from places like Indonesia and Turkey than it is from the United States and Australia. That’s something really important to know if you decided what market to target if you are using Facebook Ads as an advertising method.
What Facebook is doing to fake Facebook accounts?
What Facebook says about these accounts obviously is that they are actively finding them and disabling them each and every day. They don’t just delete the account, they disable the account and don´t let the user get access to the information or to get a copy of it. They just freeze the account forever. then they will need to ask permission from Facebook in order to create a new one.
What do I do now with my fake Facebook account?
My advice is not to open a fake Facebook account. Imagine if you create a fake Facebook account for a company and then your boss finds out that Facebook has just selected that account to be kicked out of the Facebook platform. That will put you into great trouble.
If it happens to be that you have an account for businesses, pets, topics, etc. and Facebook has not shot it down yet, you can easily convert it into a Facebook Page. The bad thing is that you will lose all the information inside, but the great thing is that Facebook will convert all of your Friends into Likes.
You won’t be able to have a personal Facebook account that way; you will be login into a Facebook Page, which means you won’t be able to contact them directly by messages, only through the news feed.
But being honest is always the best option. If you still have fake Facebook accounts you should migrate them to Facebook Pages right away, which will save you a lot of frustration in the long run.
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