FB Click Farms, Fake Likes traced to the Philippines

There’s been a growing number of underground business that revolve around Facebook advertising, specifically generating fake clicks and FB likes.

A story from the Washington Post narrated a story of a Facebook user advertising his FB Fan Page only to attract over 80,000 Likes, most of which he concluded as fake ones.

Majority of the clicks and likes generated from FB ad campaigns were coming from unusual countries such as the Philippines, Egypt, India, Pakistan, etc.

However, the fan page that got 80,000 Likes only has 1% engagement rate which is pretty low.

It is no secret that fake FB Likes are rampant in the Philippines. It is used to rig and win Facebook contest by brands, generate traffic to other websites or being sold directly to other individuals or agencies.

A quick search on Sulit generated over 29,000 results for the keyword “Facebook Likes”.

Sellers are peddling their FB Likes for as low as Php400 for every 1,000 Likes. Since the Likes can be resold many times over (infinitely), this small time trade can be big business.

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FB Click Farms, Fake Likes traced to the Philippines

There’s been a growing number of underground business that revolve around Facebook advertising, specifically generating fake clicks and FB likes.

A story from the Washington Post narrated a story of a Facebook user advertising his FB Fan Page only to attract over 80,000 Likes, most of which he concluded as fake ones.

Majority of the clicks and likes generated from FB ad campaigns were coming from unusual countries such as the Philippines, Egypt, India, Pakistan, etc.

However, the fan page that got 80,000 Likes only has 1% engagement rate which is pretty low.

It is no secret that fake FB Likes are rampant in the Philippines. It is used to rig and win Facebook contest by brands, generate traffic to other websites or being sold directly to other individuals or agencies.

A quick search on Sulit generated over 29,000 results for the keyword “Facebook Likes”.

Sellers are peddling their FB Likes for as low as Php400 for every 1,000 Likes. Since the Likes can be resold many times over (infinitely), this small time trade can be big business.

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See your biggest moments on Facebook with Look Back

In case you didn’t notice, today is Facebook’s 10th birthday and in celebration Mark Zuckerberg and the Facebook team made a special feature called “Look Back” which plays a video of some of your best moments on the social networking site.

facebook look back

The Look Back video will show some of the highlights in your X years on Facebook like your first moments, most liked posts, and photos you’ve shared in the past years. The video is just a minute long but should be enough to make you sentimental about the good old days.

Anyway, if you want to give it a try just head out to www.facebook.com/lookback via the link provided.

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Facebook introduces new Paper app

Facebook has introduced a new app called Paper, that lets users view their Facebook feed in a fresh and attractive layout.

Paper took some cues from Flipboard and designed the app in a very similar fashion, but instead of news it shows “Stories” posted by your friends and Liked pages. Users can also customize their reading experience by choosing from more than a dozen other sections about various themes and topics.

facebook paper

Below are the key features of Paper:

• Everything responds to your touch so you can pick up or thumb through stories with simple, natural movements
• You can tilt your phone to explore high-resolution panoramic photos from corner to corner, and see faces and other important details up close
• Full screen auto-play videos come to life and bring you deep into the action
• Beautifully detailed covers make it easy to spot articles from trusted publishers and decide what to read or watch.
• Articles unfold in the app and appear full screen for a focused reading experience
• When you’re ready to tell your own story, you know exactly what your post or photo will look like because you see a live preview before you share it

Introducing Paper from Facebook on Vimeo.

Facebook will launch Paper on February 3 and will be exclusive for the iPhone in the US. That’s a downer for us here in the Philippines but I’m sure there are workarounds for that.

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How to hide certain Tweets/Posts from your feed

I know that most of you have already come across the news about Justin Bieber’s mugshot released by the Miami PD because of his recent arrest for DUI and drag racing. Now, if you’re as fed up as I am about seeing posts or tweets about it, then you might want to try out these tweaks to filter it from your feed.

Block, Unfriend and/or Unfollow die-hard Beliebers

It’s a quick and fool-proof solution for permanently distancing yourself from any posts from your friends that are avid Bieber fans. But although you might not share the same musical preference with the person you’re about to Unfriend/Unfollow, it’s likely that you still want to see other posts from that person, unrelated to Bieber of course, in the future.

Mute

If that’s the case, then these two alternatives will better suit you..

Mute (Tweetdeck)

If you’re using Tweetdeck or other similar services that offers the same feature, you can choose to not see a certain user’s posts by adding them to your “Mute” list. By doing this, you’re basically filtering them from your feed without having to Unfollow them.

Similarly, the Mute option also works for “Text Contents”. This way you can still view Tweets from that user, but you’re just hiding posts that has a certain word on it (which in our case is Justin Bieber).

Here’s the step to enable Mute on Tweetdeck:

1. Click on the gear icon in the lefthand navigation menu and select Settings.
2. In the Settings window, select the Mute tab.
3. From the drop-down menu select Text Content (see picture above), and then type in the words you wish to mute (Ex. Bieber).
4. Click Mute to finish.

Silencer

In a nutshell, Silencer works similarly to the Mute option on Tweetdeck. The only major difference between the two is that Silencer also takes care of unwanted posts on your Facebook feeds.

Silencer

Setting up Silencer is very simple; just install the extension to your Google Chrome browser and select which contents you don’t want to see on your feed. The Chrome extension also works for users and hashtags both on Facebook and Twitter.

I hope these two tweaks help you to get you through the swarm of Bieber Mugshots and other contents that you don’t want to see on your feeds. I’m pretty sure that there are other nifty ways for us to block certain contents from our feeds, and if you know any, please don’t hesitate to share it on the comments field below.

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