It’s a sight common on Facebook: registered users upload images, videos, or simply write something askingfor “likes” or comments from their friends and more. Sometimes you’ll notice that some posts also contain some kind of promise, like : “comment and watch what happens to the picture,” or “ if this post gets over 100,000 “likes, will a raccoon.” posts benign are actually a form of fraud that Facebook calls “Like Farming.”
Usually we see these kinds of posts on thousands of Facebook pages. As we mentioned above, they are of innocent content, such as excerpts from famous texts, sayings, jokes, proverbs and photographs.
However , the real purpose of these pages is often to catch the attention of Facebook's algorithm so that they start appearing on users ' Timelines .
Once they do, the page owners can then immediately post ads, exploiting the public's ignorance to their own advantage. And maybe the word ignorance doesn't sit well with your ears, but the reality is that the public itself helped grow the page.
Some of them, of course, directly refer to online sales, which violates Facebook's terms of use , reports Facecrooks .
The links of the advertisements that are published reach much further than the Timelines of the page's subscribers, you know how it goes, the friend of a friend, oh friend. All of them can make a seemingly innocent click and the smart owner receives the commission. And if it's just the commission, it's not that much of a problem. However, we have seen several times such pages of unknown origin with high traffic distributing malware.
Facebook users should be very selective about where they put their likes. We've heard and it's no secret anymore that Facebook pages with a lot of members are sold at a high price to companies that want to do marketing.
