Facebook: More than 83 million users are fake (Photo: NBC News) People with multiple Facebook accounts, profiles for pets, “zombie blondes.”  These are a few examples of the 83.09 million fake users Facebook revealed this week as part of the social network’s first public quarterly earnings report.   These fake accounts make up 8.7 percent of Facebooks 955 million monthly active users, “a huge jump, both in raw  numbers and as a percentage from Facebook’s last estimate,” notes CNet’s Emil Protlanski. “Back in March, Facebook said 5 to 6 percent of accounts are false or duplicate. At the time, this meant between 42.25 million and 50.70 million users.” Read the complete story.
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Facebook: More than 83 million users are fake

(Photo: NBC News)

People with multiple Facebook accounts, profiles for pets, “zombie blondes.”  These are a few examples of the 83.09 million fake users Facebook revealed this week as part of the social network’s first public quarterly earnings report.  

These fake accounts make up 8.7 percent of Facebooks 955 million monthly active users, “a huge jump, both in raw  numbers and as a percentage from Facebook’s last estimate,” notes CNet’s Emil Protlanski. “Back in March, Facebook said 5 to 6 percent of accounts are false or duplicate. At the time, this meant between 42.25 million and 50.70 million users.”

Read the complete story.

Source: MSN

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