How To Identify A Fake profile In Facebook

As facebook grow so does the numbe rof fake profiles registered in Facebook. It is found that little over 5% of profiles in facebook are mostly Fake and luring people to fall in their trap. Facebook is working hard to keep these fakesters at bay. They made verification mandatory with a belief that will control the number of profiles. However in today`s modern communications everyone has more than one telephone number and each number has one fake facebook profile so we came up with some tips for you

Items you need to look for in Facebook profile

Facebook Profile picture

Most of the fake profile will have profile pictures of professional models or some other celebrities. These fake facebook profiles will have too beautiful picture of some processional models. Do a google image search (in chrome, you can search by uploading images) you will find the actual model.

Analyse their Friends List

Facebook was to connect you with your friends whom you know. It doesn`t mean that you cannot have people who you does not know. Do you have your facebook friends list clogged with all strangers all over the world. I bet you not. But fake profiles will have lot of friends scattered all over the world and most of these people will not be connected in any way (school, work or anything). If you find any profile like this it is another tick mark to prove that it is a fake profile.

Facebook Photo Album

Most of the Fake profiles present in facebook will have all open photo albums. Nothing will be blocked and everyone can view all albums and photos. It might have random pictures of them and it will be in hundreds. Also most of these photos will not have any tags of their friends (who are in their friends list). Also they will be having tiny pictures (a concept which helps others from using their fake pics). You found one such feature in a profile, tick one more point

Status Update

Most fake users do not have time to be online. Most times they don`t update anything in their facebook status. Even if they are updating it will mostly some website links that sell something which is not interesting.

Many male friends

Most fake profiles will have thousands of male friends in their friends list. This is the best indicator to determine whether the facebook profile you see is a fake profile or not.

I will expand the tips in coming week