Facebook is one of the trending social media on the internet. With billions of users, the sites literally have a sprawling amount of profiles and pictures to make it one of the best platform you can find. But there are certain disadvantages when it comes to such account that comes free and only needs an email verification – there are spam accounts everywhere.
These accounts have dubious characters and send suspicious friend requests. Some of them have the image of a beautiful white girl or a handsome young man spending his time on a sunny beach. In this article, we have written some tips to help you detect fake Facebook accounts and stay away from them. Certain things give away fake accounts on Facebook and here is the list of the things to follow to avoid them;
How To Detect Fake Facebook Accounts
- Profile picture
In the introductory paragraph, we mentioned the beautiful foreign girl and the safari cruise man, well that is precisely a giveaway of fake accounts. Just save the picture, go to www.google.com and drag the image to the search box. You will be given a list of sites where the picture appears, and some of them might be adult rated. That is a straight giveaway.
- Birthday
Most of the fake profiles have their birthday on the 1st of January. If you see such account combined with the face of the profile picture. Just know that it’s highly likely to be a fake Facebook account.
- Posts
Since fake account uses the picture of someone else, it might be difficult for them to use several photos of that person. So most of their profile has only one or maximum of five picture. Their timelines are also very shady as their about page might just be a spam link.
- Check activities of the user
For example, you find a user that has 200 friends and only three likes on their pictures. Or doesn’t even have any post, reposted. Then you have to be careful as that might just be an account needed to promote something later.
- Mobile number on the profile page.
A lot of females do not use their profiles on Facebook just because they don’t want to give their numbers out cheaply. So if you find one of those beautiful girl profiles that have the number posted, it’s probably not real.
With these tips, you should be able to detect fake Facebook accounts and as well navigate your thumbs away from the suspicious profile. So when they pop-up on your phone, just avoid them.