What percentage of Facebook accounts are fake or test accounts for products?

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Overtime, more people friend me who I have no connection to. What percentage of Facebook accounts are fake or not a person's actual personal account? I probably in the aggregate have created 4 Facebook accounts including my personal for other projects. Does Facebook take this into account?

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No way does Facebook even acknowledge this.

Bottom line: Facebook is worth $x per user. If you have 4 accounts, you are 4 people as far as they are concerned ;)

What percentage do you think are "real" accounts? (or anyone of course?)

Facebook has safeguards such as requiring a certain amount of friends in a certain network to add you before you actually become a part of that network (i.e. a high school network), and if you don't meet that quota in a certain amount of time they disconnect that account. Facebook also sets a limit on the number of friends you can add in an amount of time after you join their site, i think its about 100, more than that and you'd trigger flags and they shut you down and don't let you do stuff.

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