Did you know that September 27th Facebook started to purge its system and your account of fake likes and bogus users?<\/p>\n
In fact this is what Facebook Security had posted on its wall:<\/p>\n
“These newly improved automated efforts will remove those likes gained by malware, compromised accounts, deceived users, or purchased bulk likes.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
That means if you bought followers – actually I know some business clients who were actually thinking of doing this at one time, when a like actually meant something. So far our Spokesdog Facebook page is still there, but Facebook may clean that up too in the not too distant future.<\/p>\n
Facebook states that this clean up effort is to improve\u00a0things for personal accounts and brands, and it does make sense. With the ability of people who friend you to have access to your wall for their business or spam, it is a good idea for Facebook to clean up its act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Did you know that September 27th Facebook started to purge its system and your account of fake likes and bogus users? In fact this is what Facebook Security had posted on its wall: “These newly improved automated efforts will remove those likes gained by malware, compromised accounts, deceived users, or purchased bulk likes.” That means if you bought followers – actually I know some business clients who were actually thinking of doing this at one time, when a like actually meant something. So far our Spokesdog Facebook page is still there, but Facebook may clean that up too in the not too distant future. Facebook states that this clean up effort is to improve\u00a0things for personal accounts and brands, and it does make sense. With the ability of people who friend you to have access to your wall for their business or spam, it is a good idea for Facebook to clean up its act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[357],"tags":[449],"class_list":["post-3000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-trends","tag-facebook"],"yoast_head":"\n
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