Poll: How many Facebook accounts do you have?

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For information gathering I have a second facebook account. Initially this account was created to gain access to apps - without giving up "my" data. This totally invented persona, with name, gender and now even pictures (all in which a face can't be discerned) has somewhere around 350+ friends. A lot more friends than my real account.

With this account I befriend people I want to know more about without them knowing of it. People I've met in a bar, co-workers, gatherings and what not. And by "befriend" I mean sending friend requests.

It is surprisingly easy to befriend people on facebook and more so to circumvent their set "privacy" settings. In many cases all that's required for full access to someones profile/wall and data is simply to befriend a friend of them. One way to do it is to try and befriend as many "friend of friends" as possible - that way when they receive a friend request they see "you have 12 friends in common" and in those scenarios most just simply accept.

What more is that I've created several "pages" with this account and some have well over 1,000 members. As an experiment I created a couple of pages about non-causes. For instance "Do not change X" where X is something I just made up where there really is no concern for change anyways. For instance "Do not raise minimum purchase age of alcohol to 21!" (in this country that age is below 20 and there's nothing actually saying it's gonna change). Many likes.

This is scary. What I have been able to do with facebook is scary. That is also why I am extremely conservative with my own, real, account and usage.