Facebook last week announced its first set of numbers as a public company, and with it came the news that the number of users who access the site is inching closer to 1 billion. The company said it had 955 million active monthly users as of June 30, up 29 percent from a year earlier. Facebook also released some interesting statistics about "fake accounts". The company estimates that as many as 8.7 percent of those accounts, or a tad over 83 million, are fake. Facebook further breaks these accounts into what it calls "duplicate" accounts and "false" accounts. Duplicate accounts are the ones that users maintain in addition to their principal account. False accounts are further categorized into two - user-misclassified accounts and undesirable accounts. User-misclassified accounts are ones where users have created personal profiles for a business, organisation, or non-human entity such as a pet. These entities are allowed to exist on Facebo...
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