If this is logins, that's 1 million logins every 86.4 seconds on average
It’s not. :) Facebook logins last a long time. Shorter sessions would reduce usage / addiction
“One billion people used Facebook in a single day”
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My guess would be 1 billion unique accounts logged in today, via one means or another. Absolutely mind blowing.
I wonder how many of those accounts are fake / sockpuppet / astroturf / paid likes
Probably at least 20%. But is 800M any less significant? It's an insane number.
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#1033.2 B people on planet earth with Internet access. http://www.internetlivestats.com/internet-users/ 31% of anyone on planet Earth who could conceivably use a facebook product did in one day. I call B.S. or way more than 3.2 B people on planet earth have Internet access.
I think you underestimate the scale of Facebook to be honest. It's MASSIVE.
I think you may be underestimating the amount of facebook attrition over the past 3-4 years.
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I had a GF that worked solely to create fake facebook accounts. She alone had about 15 of them, she worked in a company that had about 10 employees that did the same thing as she did. The company that she worked for, was one of the smallest ones, there are several others that are much, much bigger.
I would like to know more about this. Who is paying for fake activities, and to what ends? Obvious guesses (with prior evidence!) is: Government astroturfing & information gathering (hot girl friends you + gov't gains access to your "private" content), and brand astroturfing.
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#105To me it's sad and scary for humanity that one profit seeking corporation has managed to wedge itself in the middle of all our relationships. In my ideal world Facebook would be run by a benevolent nonprofit, ala Wikipedia but more democratic.
To paraphrase Han Solo, "yeah, but who's gonna pay for it, kid? You?"
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Again, totally guessing here, but I would guess a negligible minority
Since we're all totally guessing here, I feel like I should point out that we're talking about FB scale here. Negligible minority for FB would be many products entire user count.
Right. 10 million fake accounts is still a negligible amount.
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Again, totally guessing here, but I would guess a negligible minority
I had a GF that worked solely to create fake facebook accounts. She alone had about 15 of them, she worked in a company that had about 10 employees that did the same thing as she did. The company that she worked for, was one of the smallest ones, there are several others that are much, much bigger.
Can you elaborate on the company's purpose? advertising?
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#108To me it's sad and scary for humanity that one profit seeking corporation has managed to wedge itself in the middle of all our relationships. In my ideal world Facebook would be run by a benevolent nonprofit, ala Wikipedia but more democratic.
To paraphrase Han Solo, "yeah, but who's gonna pay for it, kid? You?"
via "A personal appeal from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg" banners, of course.
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#109I for one was not one of them. I closed my account years ago and haven't looked back. "Oh, look at the cute photo!"
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> What's the most an attacker could likely get? Remember that thing when a guy from Europe asked from Facebook to give him everything they knew about him (which European citizens are allowed to request by law) and got over 1000 pages of information from Facebook? Now, multiply that by a billion (well, two or three billions actually).
>which European citizens are allowed to request by law Can they? TIL. It would be a fun thing to know, exactly how much they know about you.
I remember the case in which one guy (I think he was Irish) did send that request to Facebook and got a over one thousand page long response.
Then, there was a shit ton of persons from Europe (like, dozens of thousands) who tried to do the same through a combined court order in Vienna. Then, the court in Vienna decided that this issue was "not admissible on procedural grounds". Then, those thousands of people got generic responses like: "You can download every data we store on you by going into your settings...". Then there was an appeal to that decision and then the whole thing died out.
I found the website that organized this: http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/en.html