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Fake Profiles - AllFacebook http://allfacebook.com The Unofficial Facebook Blog - Facebook News, Facebook Marketing, Facebook Business, and More! Copyright 2013 Fri, 24 May 2013 20:09:57 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 German Privacy Group Loses Appeal With Facebook Over Real Names

Facebook has been battling users who either don’t exist in real life or are using a pseudonym, but the company has met resistance in Germany. However, a judge ruled Wednesday in an appeal case that German privacy laws (which would allow users to have whatever name they want on the social network) do not apply to Facebook, as the company’s European base is in Ireland, where regulations are more lax.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/germany-appeal-real-names_b115919#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/germany-appeal-real-names_b115919 http://allfacebook.com/?p=115919 Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:43:11 +0000 The Dangers Of Facebook Sweepstakes And Contests

Promotions can be a great way to build your Facebook community and increase engagement with your fans. They offer incentives for new users to not only interact with your page, but to revisit it. It’s also a great way for new audiences to discover your brand. The reality is, contests and sweepstakes can easily be gamed so that the winner isn’t a brand advocate, but rather, someone who cheated their way to the top. It’s a scary reality that a lot of brands and agencies fall victim to, most of which don’t even know it.

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]]> Guest Writer http://allfacebook.com/the-dangers-of-facebook-sweepstakes-contests_b115165#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/the-dangers-of-facebook-sweepstakes-contests_b115165 http://allfacebook.com/?p=115165 Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:29:20 +0000 Facebook Marketing Mistakes To Avoid

While some companies really know how to do Facebook marketing right, there are many others that are clueless. PostRocket wants to help the latter group. The company’s co-founder, Mike Maghsoudi, recently posted about five mistakes that he’s seen brands make on Facebook.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/facebook-marketing-mistakes-to-avoid_b113189#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/facebook-marketing-mistakes-to-avoid_b113189 http://allfacebook.com/?p=113189 Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:56:07 +0000 U.S., Indonesia, Japan Lose Users As Facebook Sweeps Fake Profiles

As Facebook mentioned in its 10-K filing, the site still has a serious problem with fake profiles, used to bolster shady pages’ fan metrics. It appears that the social network did some cleaning up in January, as several countries (notably the U.S. and Indonesia) lost a great number of users last month, according to Quintly. All around the world, more than 4 million users’ profiles were deleted in January.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/quintly-january-statistics_b109956#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/quintly-january-statistics_b109956 http://allfacebook.com/?p=109956 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 13:24:07 +0000 Facebook’s 10-K Filing: More Than 50M Pages With 10 Likes Or More; 10M Apps Using Platform

There were more than 50 million Facebook pages with at least 10 likes as of Dec. 31, 2012, and some 10 million applications were using the social network’s platform, according to its annual form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission following the release of its fourth-quarter earnings report last week.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/10-k-4q-2012_b109941#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/10-k-4q-2012_b109941 http://allfacebook.com/?p=109941 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 12:05:05 +0000 Debt Collectors Posing As Bikini-Clad Models On Facebook

If you’re running behind on your bills and suddenly find a friend request on Facebook from an attractive woman in a bikini whom you’ve never met before, think twice before accepting the add. As Bloomberg reported Thursday, debt collectors are taking on fake personas on Facebook to reach users who owe money.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/debt-collectors-facebook_b109232#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/debt-collectors-facebook_b109232 http://allfacebook.com/?p=109232 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:03:32 +0000 New Facebook Country Metrics Expose Pages That Purchased Likes

In an effort to get a leg up on Facebook marketing, many like-obsessed pages resort to buying fans — fake profiles which only exist to boost pages’ numbers. Now that Facebook has broken down fans by country, VentureBeat notes that it’s easier to see which pages have acquired fans honestly, and which ones flat-out paid for them.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/new-facebook-country-metrics-expose-pages-that-purchased-likes_b108216#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/new-facebook-country-metrics-expose-pages-that-purchased-likes_b108216 http://allfacebook.com/?p=108216 Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:06:44 +0000 Carolyn Everson Discusses Facebook’s Efforts To Stamp Out Fake Profiles, Accounts

Despite initiatives by Facebook aimed at stamping out fake profiles and pages, the process has been slow, and the issues still remain. Vice President of Global Marketing Solutions Carolyn Everson spoke with Business Insider about what the social network is doing about the problem.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/carolyn-everson-fake-profiles-accounts_b107659#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/carolyn-everson-fake-profiles-accounts_b107659 http://allfacebook.com/?p=107659 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 10:38:49 +0000 Fake Profiles Hurt Facebook’s Credibility

Over the past year, Facebook has been on a rampage against users who either don’t exist or are using fake names. After all, advertisers want real people with real information behind those likes. The New York Times examined this issue, showing how pseudonyms can be used for good and for evil.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/ny-times-fake-profiles_b104554#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/ny-times-fake-profiles_b104554 http://allfacebook.com/?p=104554 Tue, 13 Nov 2012 18:40:59 +0000 Teens: What Happens On Facebook Doesn’t Stay On Facebook

Despite statistics showing that more college admissions officers, as well as hiring managers, check applicants’ Facebook pages, many teenagers are still lax about social media security, continuing to post content that is detrimental to their online reputation. Michael P. Grace, president and CEO of Virallock, spoke with AllFacebook about the mistakes that high school and college students are making on Facebook and how they can clean up their acts for a better future.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/virallock-teens-facebook_b102850#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/virallock-teens-facebook_b102850 http://allfacebook.com/?p=102850 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:39:23 +0000 Facebook Clarifies Reports Of Rising Like Totals Due To Links In Private Messages

Facebook giveth, and Facebook taketh away: Just one week after pages’ like totals began dropping due to the social network’s purge of fake profiles and likes, reports surfaced of like totals increasing due to links sent in private messages, and not to users actually liking pages. Facebook responded that it was working to fix a bug in its social plugins, and that the totals being impacted were actually on counters that measure likes and shares.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/rising-like-totals-private-messages_b101364#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/rising-like-totals-private-messages_b101364 http://allfacebook.com/?p=101364 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:53:08 +0000 Facebook Growing In Indonesia, But Is It Authentic?

As evidenced by Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s trip to Russia, Facebook is doing all it can to expand its global reach. According to statistics from social media database Socialbakers, the site is growing in popularity in the Asian island nation of Indonesia, but are those new members real?

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/socialbakers-indonesia_b101154#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/socialbakers-indonesia_b101154 http://allfacebook.com/?p=101154 Wed, 03 Oct 2012 09:38:40 +0000 Page Like Totals Drop As Facebook Begins Purge Of Fake Accounts, Likes

The purge of fake profiles and likes announced by Facebook earlier this month kicked into full gear Wednesday, and the deletion of accounts that were created illegitimately and likes from malware, compromised accounts, deceived users, fake users, and purchased likes caused the like totals of several pages to drop, but in most cases, the effects were minimal.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/like-totals-drop-purge-fake-accounts-likes_b100717#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/like-totals-drop-purge-fake-accounts-likes_b100717 http://allfacebook.com/?p=100717 Thu, 27 Sep 2012 10:33:05 +0000 Facebook Asks Users If Their Friends Are Using Their Real Names

Facebook hates fake profiles. The site has roughly 955 million users, and it wants to make sure that they’re all real people. Several outlets are reporting that the social network is asking users to report friends who may be hiding behind pseudonyms.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/facebook-real-name-test_b100400#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/facebook-real-name-test_b100400 http://allfacebook.com/?p=100400 Fri, 21 Sep 2012 18:24:23 +0000 Facebook Scraps Tag Suggest Facial-Recognition Feature In EU, Gets Thumbs Up From Ireland DPC

Irish eyes (and those of the rest of the European Union) are finally smiling on Facebook, as Ireland’s Office of the Data Protection Commissioner announced that “the great majority” of the privacy recommendations it made to the social network to keep it in compliance with those of the EU have been “fully implemented to the satisfaction of this office.” The major concession by Facebook: Its tag suggest feature, which enabled facial recognition for Facebook photos, has been turned off for all new users in the EU, with existing users to lose access to the feature by Oct. 15.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/ireland-dpc-tag-suggest-facial-recognition_b100285#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/ireland-dpc-tag-suggest-facial-recognition_b100285 http://allfacebook.com/?p=100285 Fri, 21 Sep 2012 11:39:56 +0000