Social networking sites are a great marketing tool, with mass
communication medium that some users often abused. Like the case of Facebook, the numbers of new accounts that can be created are not limited, so many spammers
uses this medium for their own selfish interest to have access to other real users.
Detect Fake facebook Profile
According to a recent estimate by Facebook, there are over 85
million fake accounts on the
network. They try to add others as friend, so that
they could probably spam
others or perform
phishing scams. These types of people with fake
identity are not good, and I’m very sure you will not
like to be a friend to one of them.
Identifying legitimate friends on Facebook isn’t
all that difficult; you don’t need to be a technical
expert or a tech savvy person before you can
identify one. Here’s what you should know
to know if a Facebook
friend request is legit or not.

Tips on How to Avoid and Identify Fake Facebook Accounts

Barracuda Networks®, pieced together its findings from its most recent study, the results
which will help you to distinguish attackers from real users.

1. According to the
Barracuda Networks® study, 60% of fake account users are
bisexuals; they are interested in men and women.

2. Fake account users usually have over five hundred friends, generally six times more than the average
Facebook® user.

3. Fake account users tend to abuse photo
tagging and on
average do this about 100 times more often than real users.

4. Fake account users almost always claim to
be females.

5. Generally, fake
account users tend not to update their
statuses at all.

6. Nearly 70% of all fake account users claim to have attended
college, but the
college usually is
suspiciously close to their high school.

7. Fake account users list interests in entertainment only 35% of the time, while 77% of real users do.

Check Barracuda Labs© Social Network
Analysis
for the full infographic on how you can recognize real people vs. fake
people on Facebook at:
http://barracuda.com
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