The term ""fake account"" in social networks usually is meant as the account which does not contain personal information, however so to define the personal page not absolutely correctly.
In what danger of fake pages?
Unfortunately, there is no advantage of false pages for anybody. Very often fake accounts are created for fraud, spam sending or even viruses.
For groups from such subscribers there is also no advantage - they only reduce level of credibility among normal visitors and also prevent to calculate efficiency of the advertizing companies.
What page should be considered fake?
Pay attention to the following signs, but consider that they cannot be unambiguous signs of falseness:
1. Not real name.
Before calling the page on which obviously not real name is specified, remember that the real person can want to be called the hero of the favourite movie / animated film / game, to dream to replace a name or a surname, not to want ""shine"" the real full name in a public access,
2. In friends there are a lot of pages similar to fake.
Also ambiguous sign of the fake page. And there can be an owner of the page just adds as a friend of all who ""was knocked"" with such request.
3. On an avatar not the personal photo, but the abstract picture / photo the celebrity / image of the hero of an animated film / photo of fauna or flora.
For creation of the fake account it is possible to download the photo of the real person from the Internet therefore this sign cannot also be considered absolute.
4. There are no data on school, higher education institution or technical school where the owner of the page, the place of work, passing of military service, relatives, other personal data studied.
The lack of personal data can be, for example, sign of laziness or reserve of the owner of the page, but not falseness of the page.
5. There are no personal photos.
There is an opinion that people like to brag of new things, well spent vacation, to share joy of a holiday. Mode in a selfie gave us pages the completed with many thousands of photos like ""I and the street" ", " "I and a column" ", " "I and a carpet" ", " "I and all sights in a row"", however why you should consider only such owners of pages in social networks by the presents?
Pay attention! The false pages made qualitatively can be filled with photos, however, most likely, images will be nonunique. Moreover, real users place images gradually, the fake account will be filled for one-two visits.
Output
So, apparently from the provided list, it is at first sight difficult to distinguish the fake page from the page belonging to the real person. To draw an unambiguous conclusion, it is necessary not only to study attentively the page, but also to observe behavior of the owner of the account, to study content which it generates.