Fakes On Facebook/Crazy Matrix

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Crazy Matrix

Below is a satirical video I received today from Saint Chucklins of Ridge. It does not represent my academic, philosophical views, although it does hit on some rather interesting points to ponder on in a humourous way. I suppose it is sort of a negative, satirical representation of some true realities within the Western world today, but certainly not from a Biblical worldview, theologically or philosophically.

I should point out that while preparing this post on Google Chrome that my page was under some kind of virus or spyware attack that added words to my text, including in French.  As well capital letters were added. 

I restarted to fix, but I apologize if there are any problems. It was quite annoying when this large white block would appear and my text corrupted, and I am working in Vancouver this afternoon and therefore time is rather limited with my travel required.

Quote:

'Chucky said ... This guy has it all figured other ...'



Fakes On Facebook

My current Facebook status

@ work .... So many fake profiles now. Yes I know some friends may be fake ...

CNN August 2 2012

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In an updated regulatory filing released Wednesday, the social media company said 8.7 percent of its 955 million monthly active users worldwide are actually duplicate or false accounts.

"On Facebook we have a really large commitment in general to finding and disabling false accounts," Facebook's chief security officer Joe Sullivan told CNN in a recent interview. "Our entire platform is based on people using their real identities."

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'So what are Those 83 million undesired accounts doing? They're a mixture of innocent and malicious, and Facebook has divvied up into three categories Them: duplicate accounts, misclassified accounts and "undesirable" accounts'.

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'Duplicate accounts make up 4.8% (45.8 million) of Facebook's overall active member tally.'

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'misclassified accounts are personal profiles have been made for companies, groups or pets.'

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'The third group is the smallest - just 1.5% of all active accounts - but most troublesome. There are 14.3 million undesirable Facebook accounts have been created Facebook believes specifically for purposes that violate the companies terms, like spamming. '

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My only significant concern with potential fake Facebook profiles is the third group.

If it is someone male, it is usually from a supposed Christian ministry that is looking for a donation.

Do I delete their account? Not usually. I reason I usually do not have enough information to judge them or their ministry sufficiently so I am willing to remain their Facebook friend, and remain completely unwilling to donate any money.

I also donate my internet time elsewhere.

If it is someone female, if it is an overly sexualized profile, which appears in existence for the purposes of questionable, immoral, non-Biblical activities, I do not accept a friend request. I received one of these yesterday.

Another clue with these type of profiles is that the profile often only has a few friends and all or most of them are male. The profiles are often new.

A few days ago I discovered that a supposedly female Facebook friend with a South American profile and two photos of someone that looks like it could be the same female pastor, is probably from Benin, Africa instead. Clues are that when this person chatted with me by their initiative they wrote in French, not Spanish and they invited me to a conference in Benin.

Did I delete the profile? Not yet. But I do not take the profile seriously.

Travel to Benin?

Slightly more chance than me taking a Mars mission...

I will not donate my internet time to this person.

The other week I had another female Facebook friend supposedly from South America change names and the profile photos changed and I was de-friended.

But at least this person followed my Facebook page first and this person had never written a word to me. I had simply written hello, basically.

Perhaps he or she read my material and thought there is no way this person will ever send me a cent, no matter whose photos I use...

Very, very, true.

There is also within my view the hope of ministering to some Facebook friends, which is one reason I do not always de-friend persons that I reason might be reading blog updates and other postings.

There is so much untruth and dishonesty on and offline, even among those claiming to represent Christ and the Church, but this does not take away from the Biblical claim of Christ being the way, truth and life and the way to the Father, and therefore the way to God, in John 14: 6.

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