With just a few million shy of a billion account (995 million accounts current) Facebook is biggest social network on the planet right now but not all of its users are real. The recently public company claims that 83.09 million of its accounts are either fake, dupes or false accounts. So if you are included in this number then be prepared as Facebook plans on disabling these accounts.
Facebook’s chief security officer Joe Sullivan talked about the situation with CNN recently:
“On Facebook we have a really large commitment in general to finding and disabling false accounts,”
“Our entire platform is based on people using their real identities.”
45.8 million (4.8%) of the accounts are duplicates, sometimes users would create multiple accounts or accounts for other people for example a parent making an account for his or her child.
22.9 million accounts are misclassified accounts. They are personal profiles made for pets, companies, or groups.
14.3 million accounts or 1.5% of the overall account are the undesirables. These accounts specifically break Facebook’s terms in conditions to conduct tasks like spamming.
In short, you better read the terms and conditions.