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Fake Likes on Facebook!

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Facebook is the largest social network in the world and the first website in terms of overall traffic. Hence, it is very advantageous to have a page on it and have some people promote it for you. The way people can vote for your page on Facebook is by Liking it. Every page on Facebook has the ‘Like’ link, with which you can do this. However, people have started abusing this privilege.

In order to be successful in Facebook quickly, people have started campaigning to get more Likes in illegal ways possible. These ways include purchasing Likes, using malware to get Likes, and Likes generated by hacked accounts.

All of these dishonest activities are against the terms and conditions of Facebook. The automated spam fighting module of Facebook has been recently upgraded to remove the spam Likes on pages. Facebook has recently published a blog post about this.

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As long as a page and its affiliates are abiding by the terms and conditions of Facebook, about 1 per cent of the total number of Likes is likely to be removed on the grounds of illegitimacy. This move will improve the quality of advertisement on Facebook.

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