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Why Facebook Needs To Change Its Ways

I easily hand in a dozen people a week who are trying to friend me with fake accounts. They are easy to spot. These foreigners are hoping to get in and start a routine with you that could cause you great grief. That is only the beginning of the issues with Facebook that make it a scary place to friend people. Fake accounts are used for either soliciting money from you (one horrible feature Facebook has that I will talk about later) or they want to sneak a porn vid up on your wall.  The porn vids usually come from women in their 20s who look cute and innocent enough and have benign things on their Facebook wall and no reason for you to think anything of them. Be sure when you friend someone that you check through their entire friends list looking for oddities, such as only one sex of person they are friends with, or too many friends with slick professional model-like pictures that show a potential bunch of fake accounts. Look at their photo albums, their groups, all the details. See...