Ok, so I finally started a blog.. :-)

I got kicked off of Facebook for the 8th time this week, lol but this time I wasn't flagged by anyone.  The administrators of the site, out of the blue, decided to unpublish a page I created called "Catfish Catchers" that exposed fake or "Catfish" pages on Facebook. There are apparently infinite fraudulent profiles on Facebook, and just from the 100 or so that I found and pointed out, the fake profiles seem to have infiltrated every friend group and every connection on Facebook. Some were scamming for money. Some were trying to set people up to get robbed. Some were law enforcement. Some were just people that stole pictures and wanted to see who tried to get to know the person in the pictures. After some of my friends and I began to receive friend requests from obviously fake profiles on a regular basis, I began to take screenshots of the profiles, and then show the exact link where they stole their pictures from. Every single profile that I ever reported was 100% verified to NOT be the person in the picture and the picture stolen from another active website on the web. I even posted the specific links and often the name of the person whose pictures they had stolen. The page was active for about 2 years, but aside from a few friends, it never really got more than about 30 or 40 views a month, much less than my personal page. I was very surprised when Facebook sent me a notification that the page had been unpublished, what rule had I broken by reporting those pages? How did I violate terms of service, by making my friends and other users aware of fake pages that were violating terms of service by posting under a false identity? After a couple of hours, Facebook kicked me off the site for a week. But I don't really think it was about that page. I think it was about the now 40,000 shares I got in 2 weeks from a history video I posted. Over 1,000 friend requests and hundreds of inbox messages. People enjoying the information that I was sharing on the page and asking for more. Then I get messages from people that state they can't share the post and can't send a friend request. The SITE is blocking them from doing so. And then I get kicked off. So to Facebook I say: F you. You promote identify theft by penalizing users that expose fake profiles. You should have put me on the payroll instead of kicking me off. 

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Article from 2012 stating Facebook has 83 Million Fake Accounts

"On Facebook we have a really large commitment in general to finding and disabling false accounts," Facebook's chief security officer Joe Sullivan told CNN in a recent interview. "Our entire platform is based on people using their real identities."

BUT I CREATE A PAGE EXPOSING OVER 100 FAKE PROFILES AND MY REWARD IS BEING KICKED OFF THE WEBSITE. GUESS I NEED TO SIP TEA.

Police Create Fake Profiles to Monitor and Arrest People

“I was looking for a suspect related to drug charges for over a month. When I looked him up on Facebook and requested him as a friend from a fictitious profile, he accepted," one officer responded in an open-ended survey question in the DOJ's guide. "He kept ‘checking in’ everywhere he went, so I was able to track him down very easily."

SO A PERSON THAT CREATES A PAGE THAT EXPOSES FAKE PROFILES AND RAISES AWARENESS IS MORE IN VIOLATION OF TERMS OF SERVICE THAN AN OFFICER THAT CREATES A FAKE PROFILE. WITHOUT A WARRANT, POLICE CAN'T BREAK INTO YOUR PAGE OR PLACE THEMSELVES IN YOUR FRIEND CIRCLE, BUT IF YOU WILLINGLY ACCEPT THEM AS A "FRIEND" THEY HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO WATCH YOUR ACTIVITIES. 

ALL I CAN SAY IS WATCH OUT, THE CATFISH ARE RUNNING WILD ON FACEBOOK

JUST A SMALL SAMPLE OF FAKE PROFILES THAT FRIEND REQUESTED ME.