Many Facebook FB users are eager to complain about the site's privacy problems associated with the social network, but it turns out that there are millions of individuals who have never touched them.
According to Mashable, 13 million Facebook users have never used the social network's privacy settings.
While that is an enormously large number, 13 million is just a small fraction of the more than one billion monthly active users that currently have a Facebook account.
Last year, when Facebook obtained its 955 millionth user, 83 million of those pages (roughly 8.7 percent of the total users) were believed to be fake accounts.
Facebook defines a "fake" account in one of three ways:
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- User-Misclassified Accounts, which are produced when a user creates a personal profiles for a business, organization, or non-human entity (such as a pet).
- Undesirable Accounts, which are often used for spamming.
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