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Re:The Great Facebook “Boost”: How Click Farms Make Facebook... by kesor on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @08:56PM (#11906523)
And in order for these fake accounts not to look "too" suspicious, they have general activity like clicking on ads and other things on these accounts. Most newsfeeds of real people are not very public, so all these accounts are left with is clicking on public newsfeeds (of celebrities, etc) and clicking on ads. Boom - account is not "abandoned" anymore.
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Re:The Great Facebook “Boost”: How Click Farms Make Facebook... by yohoho22 on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @10:54PM (#11906921)
And that's all it is?

Because this guy is obviously not a click-farm customer, and Facebook is presumably not paying them to click, either. They're just spam clicking the "boosted" posts Facebook puts in front of them to seem more legitimate?

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Re:The Great Facebook “Boost”: How Click Farms Make Facebook... by dilemma on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @08:03AM (#11908746)
The parent is saying that these clickfarm accounts are randomly liking stuff so as to look like normal users. If a group of 10,000 accounts only like things from 5 different pages, the farming would be easy to detect.
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