Facebook says,” over 83 million users hold a fake account on their site.”
As college students we use the internet for almost all the school work we do. Social sites have also become a big part of our lives. We use these social sites with intensions to communicate further with friends and family, near and far. Using social sites is always risky, worrying about someone duplicating your information and the possible interaction with total strangers.
There should always be a caution with using social sites, knowing that people are not always who they claim to be. While having a discussion with some classmates it was asked if schools should take the responsibility of censoring social sites. I think social sites should implement software or privacy walls to protect the information users put up and not allow the copying of materials from other pages.
I do not feel it is the responsibility of the schools to head the censoring task but it would defiantly help the process if the social sites and school work together. The school should do their best to inform the students that falsifying an identity is subject to end in legal issues, especially if cyber bullying is the result. The schools should be able to monitor what is done on their computer to prevent campus property being used for cyber bullying or site abuse. Often the people who make fake pages know the person directly who they are contacting via the fake profile. Filtering the students who register under certain schools by making sure they are enrolled and active at that school will condense and help to cath fake pages.
http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/08/02/fake-facebook-accounts/