I get many friend requests, ‘people’ wanting to strike up conversations with me via FB, etc.

I always check their profile and their posts before accepting.

90%+ are fake accounts.

It’s mostly young women, apparently.

They show a lot of flesh in their short entries.

Or they’re all about Bitcoin promotions and how much money they’re making.

Almost all of these accounts are less than a year old.

I don’t believe them.

None of my younger relatives have nothing on their FB accounts.

None of them have accounts that are less than a year old.

None of them have accounts with no or very few friends on their lists.

What, then, is the purpose of these fake accounts?

I think they’re building up a bot army to sell likes and posts to unsuspecting wannabe marketers.

You’ll find them on Fiverr touting their credentials, but you’ll get fake likes and posts, not real humans.

The people in my friends list are real people; some I already knew, some have real-world stuff in their FB posts, and some are marketers touting real products but also have non-marketing stuff on their timelines.

What would be the benefit of just accepting everyone who asks?

I don’t think there is a benefit, but I think there are definite negatives.

From what I’ve read about the FB algorithm, it will only show your latest post to a small subset (10%?) of your friends and followers.

If you get good engagement, they’ll show it to a few more.

This means that having many fake people in your friends and followers list who will not read or like any of your posts will negatively impact your ability to get your posts read by real people.

FB does this because they want you to pay for ads, not grab free traffic.

Cull your friends list to improve your posts engagement.

Check their profiles and get rid of the fakes.

Regards,
Brent.

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