How to detect a fake profile on social networks? The 3 best ways to not be fooled – Publimetro México

Unfortunately the fake profiles on social networks It is something that all real users have had to deal with practically since the very beginning of these platforms. Before it was extraordinarily easy to detect these types of accounts on sites like Facebook, Twitter (now X), Instagram And till Tinder. But now it has become relatively more complicated.

With the rise of technologies such as Artificial intelligence as ChatGPTand other tools that help create apocryphal identities, it has become much easier to create one or more fake accounts on practically any social network. Text, photo, even video or audio, everything can now be generated by these language models.

The good news is that the generation of fake profiles that are 100% content generated by IA It is not common and there are various human errors that are usually made to reveal when we have come across a fake profile created on social networks.

Today we will review the three essential factors that help us triangulate data and facts to determine more precisely if we are dealing with an apocryphal user.

The 3 basic ways to detect fake profiles on social networks like Facebook

There is no infallible method or manual to detect when we come across a bot, sock puppet or fake account on social networks, but there are three basic ways that help us conclude the authenticity of the person trying to interact with us.

While fake social media profiles exist on Instagram, WhatsApp, X, Tinder, TikTok, Reddit y Facebook We will focus on this last social network since it is more common there, while these three tips work more clearly and directly there.

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The profile photo is the best first step

It’s obvious. The profile photo is the cover letter of every user on social networks. The absence of this image helps us rule out the potential bot or imposter almost immediately, since a fake profile usually has a low quality, blurry or unnatural image.

You should always be wary of those accounts with photos of models or celebrities, memes, landscapes, portraits with unusual or even artificial poses. Since a new important factor is the portraits generated by IA.

We can always use a reverse image search engine, such as Yandexto take the profile photo of the person in question and know where exactly they took it from.

Account activity always gives away

If we pay attention we can see thatFake profiles usually have inconsistent or no activity. For this reason, it is necessary to evaluate whether the profile has few or no publications, since apocryphal accounts do not usually publish content very frequently.

The pages you click on Like, the comments, the number of friends and their public interactions are also usually very limited or, if they exist, they focus on something very specific and even promotional. By detecting this we can activate the alarms.

Personal information almost always betrays the truth

Fake profiles often have incomplete or completely inconsistent personal information. If the username is generic, if your birthplace is unusual for where we are, if there is no information about places of study or work, if there are random numbers or strange symbols in your username precautions will need to be taken.

Facebook, X, Instagram, TikTok, fake profiles on social networks are not going away

Social networks. (lakshmiprasad S/Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Unfortunately, these fake profiles exist on the world’s main social networks and are not going anywhere. Their methods for being created are increasingly more elaborate and precisely for this reason it becomes necessary to return to the most basic and logical tips to unmask them.

By following these three basic lines of action and triangulating our findings, we will be able to determine if the account in question is an absolute bot or just a person trying to impersonate another, with some particular intention that leads them to hide their identity.

The degree of interaction you have with these fake profiles will always be the user’s final decision. But the highest recommendation is to always be cautious with the real personal information that we share with you.