Facebook is a great place keep connected with your friends and family and meet new people but fake facebook profiles often try to invade your personal space. With billions of users on facebook it’s hard to tell if you just befriended a fake facebook profile. That’s why Techloon has listed top 10 ways to identify a phony on the social media. Tag along as we go through this safety tips to identify bogus users who could be a potential privacy threat.
Profile Picture:
More and more people are posting their real pictures to be identified on facebook but a large number of users’ still have celebrity pics as their profile picture. However, if you see just one profile picture in a facebook profile that has been around for a while it is possible that it’s fake.
Status Updates:
Before you befriend a person you don’t know outside facebook go ahead and ckeck his/her’s status updates and timeline changes. A real person will most probably have some sort of personal communication with friend on his/her profile.
Recent Activities:
A fake profile user mostly doesn’t have any personal information, hobbies, activities and list of favorite groups, movie and interest. If you go through his recent activity all you’d see is adding friends and more friends. If you see a person jut interested in making friends and not indulging in any kind of conversation it’s a likely a fake profile.
Check Friend List:
If a friend list of users is bombarded with one specific gender it’s obvious that the person is using his/her profile for dating or other such purposes. If you do not wish to join such person of interest do not add these kinds of profiles to your personal facebook account.
Personal Details:
Personal details like school, collage, hometown current residence are things that people fill to connect with friends online. If you see dates and places of education that doesn’t add up it could be sign of a fake profile.
Birthday Date:
Facebook says that most fake profile on its website have a birthday date that starts with 1/1 or 31/12. Just remember to check these dates when you get an unknown request.
Wall post:
Look for recent wall post, if the space is filled with notes like “thank you for adding me”, Do I know you? Who is this? And no one answers back its likely to be a fake profile.
Contact Number:
Use your common sense, how many girls put up their number online to be seen by everyone on the web ? If you get request from a pretty girl who has her number displayed in her profile it might be a phony profile.
Relationship and Family:
A lot of people have their friends and family on facebook these days and they list them on their profile. If you have a doubt about a profile being fake check if they have listed any close relative, cousins, wife, husband, sister, brother added on their profile.
Eye Popping Profile Pictures:
Most fake profile users have an attractive or obstructive profile picture to attract more people to befriend them. Trust your instinct and we wise before you join such bogus profile.
These are some of the most common points one should consider while detecting a fake profile. However, its not always necessary that every FB profile with these points is fake, but a real person is also not likely to send friend request to unknown people. Remember to use common sense and trust your instinct before allowing a person to access your private information.
