by Nathan Eddy, eWeek
Who needs real friends, anyway? In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the social networking giant Facebook admitted that 8.7 percent of its 955 million members worldwide could in fact be in violation of its policies, with duplicate accounts, accounts that users maintain in addition to their principal accounts, make up 4.8 percent of that figure. In addition, the filing reveals user-misclassified accounts may have represented approximately 2.4 percent of Facebook’s worldwide users, and undesirable accounts may have represented approximately 1.5 percent of their worldwide users. User-misclassified accounts are classified as personal profiles for a business, organization or nonhuman entity such as a pet. These types of entities are permitted on Facebook using a Page rather than a personal profile under the company’s terms of service.
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