There are 76 million Facebook Identify are Fake Accounts

Everyone knows Facebook is a social interaction media # 1 virtual world today, but behind its popularity Facebook has reported that about 76 million of the 1.06 billion user accounts on social networking false in some way or other.

Facebook identifies three types of accounts that do not represent real users:

Above types of accounts grew by more than 7% monthly active users around the world last year.

Facebook reveals figures in the annual report filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday (01/02/2013).

Duplicate accounts, or owned by people other than their main accounts, representing 53 million accounts, or 5% of the total.

Misclassification account, including those made to non-human or entity such as a pet or organizations, which instead should have a Facebook Page, accounted for nearly 14 million accounts, or 1.3% of the total.

And Account undesirable, such as those made by spammers, round tally with 9.5 million accounts, or 0.9% of the users.

Facebook said it continues to strive to improve its ability to identify duplicate or false accounts. It is also noted that there is a higher percentage of these accounts in developing countries such as Indonesia and Turkey, compared with developed countries such as the USA and Australia.

Using fake names is a violation of Facebook policy and encourages users to report friends who use false names or create fake accounts.

"We have a special User Operations team is reviewing the report and take appropriate action," along with the technical systems in place and block potential fake accounts based on name and anomalous site activity, such as a Facebook spokesperson explained.

The latest figures are not too different, Facebook reported last summer. There are slightly fewer duplicate accounts for the quarter ended June 30. But no account of misclassification almost twice as much at 22 million, and accounts that there are 14 million unintended.

Facebook said the figure was based on a limited sample report account.Everyone knows Facebook is a social interaction media # 1 virtual world today, but behind its popularity Facebook has reported that about 76 million of the 1.06 billion user accounts on social networking false in some way or other.

Facebook identifies three types of accounts that do not represent real users:

Above types of accounts grew by more than 7% monthly active users around the world last year.

Facebook reveals figures in the annual report filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday (01/02/2013).

Duplicate accounts, or owned by people other than their main accounts, representing 53 million accounts, or 5% of the total.

Misclassification account, including those made to non-human or entity such as a pet or organizations, which instead should have a Facebook Page, accounted for nearly 14 million accounts, or 1.3% of the total.

And Account undesirable, such as those made by spammers, round tally with 9.5 million accounts, or 0.9% of the users.

Facebook said it continues to strive to improve its ability to identify duplicate or false accounts. It is also noted that there is a higher percentage of these accounts in developing countries such as Indonesia and Turkey, compared with developed countries such as the USA and Australia.

Using fake names is a violation of Facebook policy and encourages users to report friends who use false names or create fake accounts.

"We have a special User Operations team is reviewing the report and take appropriate action," along with the technical systems in place and block potential fake accounts based on name and anomalous site activity, such as a Facebook spokesperson explained.

The latest figures are not too different, Facebook reported last summer. There are slightly fewer duplicate accounts for the quarter ended June 30. But no account of misclassification almost twice as much at 22 million, and accounts that there are 14 million unintended.

Facebook said the figure was based on a limited sample report account.