[Infographics] Fakebook – The Rise of Facebook Bogus Users

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We’ve heard a lot about Facebook actual user base touching 1 Billion and so forth from different sources, but recently Facebook in a quarterly filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), disclosed that about 5% of its 955 million members (monthly active users) have duplicate accounts and around 83 million of them are fake. We’ve made a simple infographic to illustrate our analysis, if you like it – do share it!

Facebook Fake and Bogus Users - Infographics

Comparing the figures from SEC and Facebook’s Second Quarter 2012 Results, it’s evident that the 955 million active users would be downgraded to 872 million. What do you think?

View: Fakebook Infographic in HQ

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