The news has it covered this week with the news that two young girls who were murdered in a shooting at a school in Fairfax, Va. were using a “fake” Facebook account to post about their experience.
The story began with news reports quoting the girls’ mother, who said in a Facebook post that she had “not seen anything like this in my daughters’ life.” She added, “I’m angry and heartbroken that my daughter’s death was caused by a Facebook account that was created by people who do not deserve to exist in our society.
Facebook is just one of many social sites that have been linked to this case. These girls were using a fake Facebook account to post about their experiences because they were desperate to get attention. Facebook used this incident as a “training ground” for the company and to create a social media algorithm that they could use to target users for more serious crimes.
At the same time Facebook was creating this fake Facebook account, it was creating a fake Facebook account for me. It happened three years ago and my daughter’s Facebook account was used to create a fake Facebook account for me. Now we’re both victims of Facebook and it’s just too damn hard to get out of it.
I’m not saying the company is completely out of control here. I believe that if you play a hand of poker against them, you’re going to lose, but I also believe that they have the ability to create a lot of these fake accounts. It’s very easy to create an account on Facebook and there’s no limit to how many you can create. It’s easy to get into a fake Facebook account, but harder to get out of it.
I agree, my guess is most of them are fake profiles. The ones that are real, are probably just bots. Not knowing that you have a fake account on Facebook, seems like a huge security hole. You have no idea what types of accounts are out there in the wild.
In other news, mobile development is a big success and is becoming the norm for developing web applications. Mobile developers are becoming more and more productive and it seems like they are all doing things like using Facebook to advertise their apps. It is also becoming more common for these apps to be free or at least very low cost.
The whole Facebook thing seems very strange to me. As an app developer I have to be aware of what is going on, but as a user of Facebook I don’t really care. Now I don’t even know if that’s the case with all Facebook users, but I have no intention of going and checking.
Facebook is all very well and good for those with a Facebook account, but not so good for those with a Twitter account. I have a Twitter account, but I am not very active in it. If I am going to get any more of an insight into the world of Facebook, I am going to have to start using it.
It is interesting to note that while Facebook recently unveiled a new version of its News Feed that allows you to see more than just your friends’ posts, it is not yet clear if Twitter will follow suit. And if it does, it will likely be even more controversial than Facebook’s. While Facebook is for the most part a personal social networking site, it can be used by businesses and organizations that need to track the movements of their users.