Facebook shut 583 million fake accounts

phys.org ^ | May 15, 2018

[ptsal]

Interesting point and good advice to contact the SEC. Another FakeBook item is Marky's stonewalling and blowing-off of the inquiry in the UK. These acts (bad acts) may not end well for FakeBook. Ah, the sound of FakeBook with the fake books.

[TomGuy]

My account still exists, even though the last time I logged in was July 2017.

I created the account nearly 2 decades ago to get some info/serial number for a software program. The next time I logged in was about 15 years later. I had forgotten I even had that account until Facebook hit the news and was surprised that my account still existed.

The only reason I signed in last July was when the main FR site was down and FBk was the go-to info site.

[mass55th]

I must be unique. I have one email address...the same one I’ve used since I subscribed to Time Warner’s Road Runner...20+ years ago. I don’t use Firefox or Google. I use Safari and have Ad Block Plus, so I’m not bothered by those types of ads.

[JimRed]

I still have not figured out how to get away with a fake account from which to annoy liberals.

[poconopundit]

Good. Another you can do is create your own home page that has 90% of the common websites you go to so you really don’t need to search Google or Facebook to find them.

I put the personal home page in a folder of my computer rather than on the internet.

And the other thing you can do is clean out your surfing history.

[mass55th]

Thanks for the advice, but my Safari browser already does that without me having to tell it to.

[Fedora]

If there were this many fake accounts, Facebook has been misleading its advertisers about its marketing reach.

[usconservative]

I should check my fake account to see if it still works.

All of mine do!

[bitt]

583 million people they won’t have to pay in the class action suit, bwahaha

[Bryan24]

Thank you, gonna try that tonight.