Have you ever come across profiles that have the name and images of a business organization (especially a logo as profile picture) instead of a real person? Some people may also receive friendship requests from such profiles.
There are various businesses that have profiles (instead of pages) on Facebook.
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LinkedIn is a social network for professionals, intellectuals and educated people. That is why its reputation is high.
Today, the reputation of many people of LinkedIn can be at stake if they have a spammer or some profile in their network.
Does the menace of fake profile exist on LinkedIn too?
Yes! There are numerous fake profiles on LinkedIn as well. Their aim is to join the network of people and spread the spam messages in their news-feeds and clutter their message boxes with spam messages.
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In the era of social media where the worth of a brand is determined on the basis of LIKES on Facebook or follows on Twitter, it is obvious that like Facebook, Twitter is also a hotbed for fake profiles.
There are cheats who take money and get twitter fake followers for a profile. Some people who want to trap people into some fraudulent deals often follow random people.
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As anything on social media goes viral, social networking websites need to introduce new features to impress users and stay viral (ahead of others) in competition.
After Facebook introduced Hashtags, something that was keeping Twitter ahead of Facebook and preferable over Facebook over social media advertising and marketing, Twitter has once again capitalized on hash tags, something that made it popular.
As noted by Livefyre’s Lead Social Strategist Nick Cicero, Twitter is offering suggested hashtags as you compose a tweet.
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Today is Independence Day of India. So I decided to share this story with a fabulous artwork.
On the request of my friend Ashutosh Singh Rajput, I am writing the origin story of Dhwaja (female Tiranga). This super-heroine Dhwaja is on an Earth where women are stronger than men.There society sees women as more important than men.
DISCLAIMER 1 - Tiranga is a trademark of Raj Comics. Created by Raj Comics. Creators are Sanjay Gupta, Tarun Kumar Vahi and Dileep Chaubey.
DISCLAIMER 2 - This is only a fan-fiction, written only for the entertainment of comic-book lovers like me.
DISCLAIMER 3 - All characters in this story fictitious. Any resemblance to those who are living or dead is co-incidental.
DISCLAIMER 4 - The characters of this story have not been created to hurt the sentiments of any community. These characters are purely fictitious.
DISCLAIMER 5 - This story is for mature readers. If you are a prude and get shocked by violence, please do not read beyond this point.
Female version of Tiranga created by Ashutosh Singh Rajput. Story by Avijit Misra a.k.a. Avi Rapstar
Aabha was a young lawyer. She was born in a world (a parallel Earth) where women were more important than men. They were also physically stronger than men. The most important super-heroine in this world was Nagrani. Aabha wanted to be that in the field of law what Nagrani was in the field of crime-fighting. She wanted to win a big case. So she took businesswoman Ratna Daga to court, accusing her of ignoring environmental laws while carrying out production in her factories.
However, Ratna Daga won the case due to money power. Aabha realized that she needed to find concrete evidence. She started investigating Ratna, secretly. Later, she found that Ratna was secretly manufacturing a biological weapon with the help of Sarani which she intended to sell to Pakistan (of that Earth). Abha secretly went into the factory to investigate and she saw Sarani there. Sarani was a wanted criminal and she was on the run. Thus, it was surprising to see that Ratna Daga was giving shelter to Sarani.
(The crime that Sarani was wanted for has been described in Foonkaar (Nagraj Series) when Sarani was talking to her gang in Shell Jail.)
Aabha took pictures with a camera.
However, she made some mistake because of which panic struck the factory. It caused an explosion which killed many laborers. Sarani had escaped the factory. Aabha felt sad as she considered herself responsible for the death of laborers. Ratna Daga got the incident dismissed as an accident. She offered compensation to the families of victims. Aabha was sad to see that police was not interested in investigating the case.
Later, Sarani was captured by Nagrani. Aabha argued the case on behalf of prosecution in court and sent Sarani to jail.
(Sarani‘s arrest would be followed by her escape that was shown in Foonkaar.)
However, later Aabha learnt that Sarani had created the biological weapon. So to save her country, she donned a costume on the basis of national flag, complimented with a mask. Calling herself Dhwaja, she investigated and found out Ratna‘s plans. She foiled the deal between Pakistani terrorists and Ratna as Ratna wanted to sell the biological weapon to Pakistan. This time, Dhwaja succeeded in getting Ratna arrested. The weapon was confiscated by Indian government.
Aabha decided to continue her life as Dhwaja to investigate crimes and gather evidence and use that evidence in court as Aabha to get the criminals sentenced.
I hope you enjoyed this story. Please post your comments and observations.
Image Courtesy: Ashutosh Singh Rajput
In our Faking The Fakes series, we explained how fakes LIKES on Facebook and fake follows on Twitter can damage your ranking as well as reputation.
We also explained that on LinkedIn, you can go through the headache of seeing spam links in your Inbox if you allow fake profiles to join your network. When the menace of fakes can haunt three biggest social networks, it only grows big when it creeps into YouTube in the form of fake views.
Does the concept of fake views on YouTube exist?
Of course it does! It exists as much as you and us. There are fraudulent ways to increase the number of views on YouTube.
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In the previous article of this series, we told you how to find out if a Facebook page was buying LIKES. We also explained how such fake LIKES destroy the credibility of page.
Security firm Barracuda Networks has explored the menace of fake profiles in a study titled “Facebook: Fake Profiles vs. Real Users.”
What did the study say about the fake profiles on Facebook?
The study analyzed a random sampling of 2,884 active Facebook accounts to identify key differences between average real user accounts and fake accounts created by attackers and spammers.Results of the studies:
1. Almost 60 percent of fake accounts claim to be bisexual. That is 10 times more than real users.
2. Fake accounts have six times more friends than real users. They may have 726 friends while average real users on Facebook have 130 friends.
3. Fake accounts use photo tags over 100 times more than real users, 136 tags per four photos versus one tag per four photos.
4. Fake accounts almost always (97 percent) claim to be female, as opposed to 40 percent for real users. This would encourage lonely boys to send them friendship requests and enlarge their network of spam receivers.
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In an earlier previous blog post, I explained the concept of Twitter Lead Generation Card and the procedure to create it as well as use it.
Now, as we promised, we are back again, this time, with an easy procedure of using Lead Generation Card from Twitter with MailChimp. Using Lead Generation Card will MailChimp is really easy.
To connect to your Lead Generation Card to your MailChimp account:
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