Probably under 10 million (regularly active users).
So ILLEGALS are affecting their economy as well? smurk smurk
If I’d been thinking, mine would have been fake too. I put in a minimal amount of factual data but even so, the FB snoopiness is disturbing. I just use it to access a few conservative pages so no big deal to just pull the plug, but what’s out there is out there forever.
My Dog has a Facebook account managed by my Daughter.
The dog has about 50 friends who are cats and dogs.
And you arrived at that how?
Total number of accounts aren’t really indicative of anything more than unused profiles, at the minimum.
Facebook actually has to show how many eyeballs see ads and the dormant accounts wouldn’t go into that profile.
My FB account is totally fake. I only used it a couple of times to get into some deals on the internet that required a Facebook account. Otherwise, I have never used it.
Shills...
Why weren’t ‘real users’ important when they offered stock in the company?
IMHO, they should consider it a feature, not a bug. The alternative is going to be a much more limited FB architecture and a huge exodus of users and content providers.
60 million of them created by Indian outsourcing firms in order to “Like” Mitt Romney. /sarc
I have a fake account. My fake personna:
Went to a real high school in a city I’ve never been to. (large so I could be anonymous).
Graduated from high school at least ten years ago. Same reason.
Graduated from a large university with a specific degree that is common for that school.
Works at a large facility for a large company that has everything from manufacturing to office jobs in the same city - A city I’ve never been to.
I’ve accepted many friend requests and then requests from “friends of these friends” though I never communicate with any of them.
The persona serves three functions.
1. I use it to confirm my privacy settings on my real account.
2. I use it to try out facebook applications that I don’t want connected to my real account (games and such).
3. The main reason: Post comments under stories at various news sites that require you to log in with facebook, twitter, disqus, etc. Anonymity.
I’m sure others do the same.
Uhhh. No. There are probably 10 million active users between the ages of 13-24 in the US alone. Most high school girls have a facebook page that they are on constantly...and there are about 6 million of them...
Fake in what sense? Did the company create them to appear larger and of greater value, or are they accounts set up to deceive as to whom is posting?
I don’t facebook because of their tracking of your activity after you log out; I don’t trust them not to sell information to undesirables, like the regime for example. I’ve been trying to figure out a way to set up a “fake” account but have not a clue where to start. Once they have my IP number, they can track everything I do, I’ve heard.
FB is just a ponzi scheme.
I often wondered about that. In fact, I’ll bet half the FB accounts are duplicates. I’ve got two myself. One for the family/relatives group, and one for my generation of friends. Pretty easy to do, just set it up with one of those generic Hotmail email addresses. Virtually all my friends have several accounts each for exactly the same reason....isolating family from the horrors of unpredictable “friends”.
I’m going to have to talk to my Facebook friends Amanda Hugandkiss and Al Coholic about this.
They’ve known this all along. They should be in jail for putting out false information in their IPO.
1/6th of the world is on facebook. Right.
Unless users live as non-opinionated Saints and especially when visiting fb, they are insane to advertise their lives on the Internet like that.