Fake Facebook Accounts

Discussions center on creating and using fake or shadow Facebook accounts for anonymity, testing, or obfuscation, along with Facebook's detection methods, verification demands like ID uploads, and policies against them.

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herbst May 11, 2016 View on HN

Try having fake accounts. It is really not as facebook would this make easy.

kashkhan Mar 14, 2015 View on HN

wouldn't it be easy for facebook to deactivate the current fake account?

kgermino Mar 7, 2011 View on HN

What stops them from making fake Facebook accounts now?

jamesgagan Jun 19, 2011 View on HN

i think facebook has tacitly allowed these types of accounts for testing/anonymity etc. you probably wont be shut down unless you do something egregious.

659087 Jun 2, 2017 View on HN

Your "fake account" isn't fooling Facebook if you're adding all of your real friends to it.. Nor is your fake information.

knownjorbist Aug 3, 2021 View on HN

I used a throwaway email, phone, fake photos and friended a number of accounts. I have nothing connecting it to my "real" facebook and/or social graph. Maybe I'm lucky.

nate_martin Mar 14, 2013 View on HN

Wont people just make fake fb friends and write their own profile?

Arbalest Apr 13, 2018 View on HN

Is it time to start creating shadows for Facebook to track of people that don't exist and don't have facebook accounts?

palewery Sep 27, 2010 View on HN

I have a fake FB account for this reason. It is amazing how many people will friend someone who doesn't exist

bhousel Mar 18, 2011 View on HN

Why not just set up a fake facebook profile?