With the increasing number of social media accounts, it’s tough to identify the fake profile on social media. Have you ever indulged in a chat with a random person on social media and after some time you come to know that it’s a fake profile of your friend? I have heard stories of my friends who used to prank each other during hostel days with fake profiles.
Before discussing the ways to identify fake profiles, let’s discuss what could happen if you follow fake profiles or add fake profiles to your friend list.
- Fake profiles can miss-use your personal information, like most of us rely on our friends and share pictures with people in our friend list. So unknowingly you give access to your pictures and posts to anonymous people.
- If you follow a fake profile, unknowingly you are encouraging fake content. It’s common human behavior, when we see a person is having so much fan following we start following them.
We are here with some crazy ideas you can try to spot a fake profile on social media within seconds.
Very Attractive profile picture
If you get any friend request, the first thing you see is a profile picture. If you see a profile picture very attractive or in other words, outstanding, then you must cross-check it.
Huge Fan Following
If you see any profile with so many followers without interesting posts then it could be a fake profile. People buy fans following easily on social media, so if you see posts with 2 or 3 likes but followers are in thousands then chances are high that it is a fake profile.
Frequent and so many spams
If you get frequent friend request from the same profile even after ignoring it several times, it could be a fake profile. For example, if you get friend request again and again from a profile of a girl who don’t have common friends with you, then it could be a fake profile.
Sudden Rise in followers
If you notice a profile that was created a few days ago and its followers are increasing tremendously, then you should double-check before following this profile.
No relation between profile pic and posts
After a huge increase in online business and online marketing, it’s very common to create a page on social media. I have seen many profiles with profile pictures of any model, but the posts are the opposite. Most of the time they are related to some poker sites or any online business. So beware of adding such fraudulent profiles to your friend list.
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