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Re:What percentage of Facebook accounts are fake or test acc... by goldenthunder on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @06:21PM (#1985146)
No way does Facebook even acknowledge this.

Bottom line: Facebook is worth $x per user. If you have 4 accounts, you are 4 people as far as they are concerned ;)

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Re:What percentage of Facebook accounts are fake or test acc... by b0o on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @07:11PM (#1985330)
Facebook has safeguards such as requiring a certain amount of friends in a certain network to add you before you actually become a part of that network (i.e. a high school network), and if you don't meet that quota in a certain amount of time they disconnect that account. Facebook also sets a limit on the number of friends you can add in an amount of time after you join their site, i think its about 100, more than that and you'd trigger flags and they shut you down and don't let you do stuff.
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Re:What percentage of Facebook accounts are fake or test acc... by Miller450 on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @06:44PM (#1985235)
What percentage do you think are "real" accounts? (or anyone of course?)
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