Fake Social Media accounts | Graph theory

Originally intended as response to Tinder thread. Most social media account are individualistic and nobody cares unless you are (or impersonating) a celebrity. This creates a graph of publisher/subscriber or leader/follower relations which are based on the premise that maximum people (or trolls) view your post. Classic examples are Instagram and Twitter. You want random people to see your images or read your tweets. The contrast: One day I asked one of my lady friends to show me pics of her other hot friend on FB on her phone. After a while she got uncomfortable that she was allowing some creep to see pics of another girl without her permission. The argument is that you post a pic you want to restrict to a a limited group of people you trust. Now case in point, FB has a real name policy (the LGBT boycotted it went to Ello). But it is easy to set up a fake FB account, they would send a text or email to verify your own it ( they aren't going to ask AT&T if that's your real name) But that's it you can set up a fake account with few trolls that accept your friend request. So now you would be wondering, what the fuck is real name policy then and what does it amount to ? It's a legal requirement as per terms of service of FB. If they find or someone reports your name is fake, they MAY delete your account and bring identity fraud charges against you. In reality they fucking don't care because it's a social service based on social approval. If you have 250 friends on FB they are indirectly vouching that you are not a troll. These 250 people would be connected to 250 each (or overlapping friends) embedding you deep in graph and raising your trustworthiness to the network. Most websites are individualistic and no 3rd person has to vouch for you. Not even LinkedIn. On FB the real person whom you sent your friend request will only accept if they are comfortable with some unknown troll /creep seeing their children's images Or the idiot is in Zimbabwe. Setting up a FB troll account with 250 real friends is extremely difficult. Setting up a LinkedIn Account with 250 connections is easy-peasy. Just send requests to starving students and random people. There was a time 10 years back when setting up fake FB account with lots of friends was easy because people thought it was a social network for talking to strangers even dating women in Brazil with Google translate. Escorts will often accept FB or LinkedIn verification if you don't have references.