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Facebook Working To Weed Out Fake Likes
jfruh writes In the early days of brands on Facebook, it was crucial for companies to garner as many "likes" as possible to boost their image, and that led to some unethical businesses selling likes that came from fake accounts. Now Facebook is informing brands that they're working to root out fake likes, leaving like counts lower but realer. Now if only I could get my relatives to stop clicking on pictures that say they like puppies and are against cancer.
They are not going to get very far weeding out fake likes when their system is set up to bribe people for likes.
What facebook needs to do is add a dislike button like youtube has.
If I want to comment on my local government's facebook page to complain about something why the fuck do I have to LIKE them first.
Secondly facebook should crack down on companies asking for likes to enter competitions or get discount coupons at their shop.
Perhaps you should first find realer words than "realer". Like "more reliable"? Or "more realistic"?
If you like this new initiative, click "like" on the post announcing it. Also do so if you don't like the new initiative.
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
I love cancer and hate puppies. Best possible scenario is when puppies get cancer. Serves them right.
They're fine with fake anything that helps their bottom line.
Why is Snark Required?
I am admin for a good-sized group (>1000 fans). We see about a 50-50 mix of real humans and fake accounts requesting to join the group. Curiously, the fake ones have similar structure: Photo of a lovely young Asian lady, and a weird name, and male sex.
The determined Real Programmer can write Fortran programs in any language.
Fake likes is Facebook's entire business model. Getting rid of fake likes would be like McDonalds saying they are going to get rid of unhealthy food.
Excellent youtube video describing the problem with Facebook's commercialized likes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVfHeWTKjag
From TFS: "In the early days of brands on Facebook, it was crucial for companies to garner as many "likes" as possible to boost their image".
It's still like that, except with individual posts rather than pages. If a post doesn't get enough 'likes', 90% of the people following that page will never see it unless they've gone to the trouble of turning notifications on or the page owner has ponied up the bucks to 'boost' the page.
I had a legitimate business page with real likes, and after about a year they shut my page down without explanation.
I'd settle for them blocking fake friends! :S
I've been running an ad for my business page and have gotten 100 likes in the last three days from my ad. Problem is people like me ad not by business so in reality I'm just buying like for the sake of likes.
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
It's called moderators points... which I just lost my chance to use by leaving a comment. :P One or the other, maybe Facebook should use that system, too!?
I wish it was somehow smarter about hiding categories of content.
My neighbor frequently shares pages/people's posts about New Agey kinds of food topics -- "10 reasons why boiled kale improves your aura". I use the "Hide all from Melanie Stargazer" option to block it, but there doesn't seem to be a way to train Facebook to block other similar pages/content types.
My guess is many of these shares are from people trying to make a career out of being digital holistic gurus of some kind and pay Facebook to promote their posts. But I wish I could train it to identify this category of post and just never see it again.
I also feel like I've blocked countless radio station shares, which must also be paying to promote their content. But I don't want to see clickbait from "101.3 The Wave" or any other station I've never heard of.
Still another is the mass tag shared post, often from an organization/entity -- "Foo Bar with Manny Smith and 47 others". I'm pretty sure the mass tagging is done to develop maximum exposure, but it seems to abuse the putative social intent of tagging a post as identifying people actually with the poster.
Yet another annoyance is the phenomenon of people posting replies that contain ONLY people's names as tags. Occasionally I want to see the comments to a post, but often the majority are just name tagging. There should be a way to hide those so that only the people tagged and/or their friends (depending on security settings) see them.
I was just watching a video about this the other day. Dude explains that fake like fraudsters also tend to like facebook-promoted content to try to throw the fraud-detection algorithms off. Ultimately either method of promotion makes it harder for him to connect with people who are actually interested in his channel.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Damnit, Facebook. If it wasn't for fake likes, I wouldn't have no likes at all.
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
This will only really work for the accounts that have no activity other than liking one thing (or one person's set of things). As soon as the fake accounts are managed to like a bunch of other random things in addition to the page in question Facebook will be right back where it started.
How to get fake likes :
- Pay a bunch of people in China or India to click on the "like" button.
- Pay Facebook to encourage a bunch of people in China or India to click on the "like" button.
Facebook wants to penalize people who use the first option. Fake likes are OK as long as Facebook get their share.