Social
media can't be trusted, people come there to make new friends but often fall in
trap of some psycho breeds who pretend to be someone they aren't. The figures
released by Facebook claim that more than 80 million profiles on Facebook are
fake, which is quite a huge number. Most of the fake profiles are made for
spamming walls or groups by posting weird stuff, for increasing fan following
of not so popular pages, for fun-dating and sometimes also for frauds. Many
innocent and desperate people often fall in their trap without knowing that
they are just talking to some stranger who has nothing better to do.
Most of
the fake profiles are of females or males pretending to be females, so that
they can have fun attracting other males and chatting dirty with them. A proven
study shows that females get a high number of friend requests as compared to
males, that's why despos disguise themselves as females so that they can
attract other despos. Today I'm going to list 10 ways you can use to spot fake
Facebook profiles, these methods are very important for those people who are
either new to social media or are not good at
How to Spot a Fake Facebook Profile
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1. Born on 1st January
Fake
profiles are most likely to have the birth date as 1st January. This is because
fake users are lazy enough to set a random birth date and often end up keeping
the default value. So next time when you see a random friend request from a
person unknown and who was unfortunately born on 1st January, then think twice
before accepting.
2. Horny Status Updates
If you
find a profile with inappropriate status updates containing horny comments
or photos then just go away, it’s a fake profile probably created for flirting.
You can also check 'What pages the profile has liked' if you find something
unusual then just get rid of him ASAP!
3. Low information in about section
As I
said earlier, most of the fake profile users are lazy enough to imagine fake
stats and information like the birth date, and so is the rest of the
information. 80 percent fake profiles have little to no information in the
about section of their Facebook profile. A genuine user will have at least
details about his hometown, school/college, work place etc. But most of the
time fake profiles will only contain information like gender, a random birth
date and one or two photographs (probably stolen from the internet), Before
accepting new friends, do check about page.
4. Large number of friends
One of
the many reasons why people create fake profiles is to spam Facebook groups or
just have random fun by playing a prank on nerds, pretending to be a hot girl
or something. If you observe fake profiles closely, you'll notice that these
profiles have high number of friends, of course if you'll blindly add people to
your friend list, you'll surely end up with a football stadium worth friends, I
mean who will reject a friend request sent by a female? So I think you got my
point ;) A large number of fake profiles are female profiles and their target
is obviously men, and according to my experience, no men (let me correct
myself, 'desperate men') will ever say no to a female.
So
jumping back to topic, If a suspicious Facebook profiles has thousands of
friends then the chances of it being a fake profile is more than that of a dog
playing 'Stairway to Heaven' on guitar, and I mean it.
5. Almost No Self Photos
Nowadays even if a girl goes to a Restaurant washroom, she clicks a dozen selfies, so a female Facebook profile without any self photos is a clear indication that it is fake. If you
see a Facebook profile stuffed with photos like random girl selfies, teddy
bears, chocolates, flowers, couple kissing, photos with quotes that make you
throw up, photos with 'I Love You' etc. kind of crap then it’s a Fake profile.
If you see more than 5 photos of same person (girl) that still doesn't mean
that the profile is genuine, take the test given below.
- Download any one photo from the suspicious profile.
- Go to Google Images > Click on search by Image
- Upload the picture you've downloaded
- Search
Wait a
few seconds for the results to arrive. Check if the same image is uploaded
somewhere else or not. Most of the times you may find that the image was stolen
from some other social profile or website. Many spammers hunt down the images
from other social profiles and then using them create a fake profile.
6. Joined Facebook Recently
This
isn't an accurate point to consider whether a profile is genuine or fake, but
still is of great help. New profiles are most likely to be fake profiles,
unless you the person personally. If one day you find a friend request from a
girl (which you can get even in million years) waiting for your approval and by
chance was created recently then moving a rock on your heart, Reject It!
Research
shows that a big percentage of fake profiles are those which are created
recently.
7. Checking Mutual Friends
Well
this isn't very accurate, sometimes at the party you may have met some stranger
and quickly bonded, then before you realized you've already exchanged phone
numbers and sent requests on Facebook, next morning when you get sober, you
find out who this person is? So this isn't an accurate method for spotting a
fake profile but can be useful. If the profile has common friends as yours, it
is more likely to be genuine. In case mutual friends are horny and despos then beware!
8. Talking / Chatting inappropriate or out-of-character
Let’s
see in this way, you accept a random friend request and that guy is
being generous by liking all the crap you're posting and is also leaving
comments on them. Then one day he/she starts chatting and after a casual
'Hello' starts asking questions like 'Do you have a Boy/Girlfriend?' or something
similar. Just get rid of them.
Bonus Tip
Celebrity profiles on Facebook have a blue color tick mark sign near their name. This states that the profile is verified by Facebook and belongs to the genuine person.
Also Read: Benefits of Business page on Facebook
So these were some killer points to consider when you suspect a Facebook profile to be fake. I hope this article was interesting as well as useful.
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