Mashable: "Facebook shadow profiles. You may have seen the term crop up on tech news sites this week, and it may given you the feeling it's a nefarious privacy violation — or the first fun feature that Facebook has introduced in years.
But, seriously: Are shadow profiles real? Do I have one? Are they bad?
If you use Facebook, then the answer to all three of those questions is "yes." Let's take a trip into the shadowy recesses to learn more."
I have 10+ fake Facebook accounts, with 5k friends each. - For different purposes.
Facebook thinks it has me figured out.
Facebook, you mad bro?
so basically a botnet of information gathering because the weak links in your network sniched on you unknowingly.
lol brilliant.
still id like to know how google knows my debit card number and I havent given it to them nor entered it for anything google related...