How to tell a bot from a real person on Facebook

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For example some unknown lady starts to follow you on Facebook with a photo like this:

Or vice versa: under the post about a super-cool new something you find comments with the same text from different people.

But if you check the account of the pretty lady or monosyllabic commentators, you may find out that their Facebook feed is filled with reposts, information about the person himself is scarce, and there are very few personal photos.

With a probability of 99.9%, you are in front of Mr. and Mrs. Bot. But bots are different.

Is a bot a program?

And yes, and not always. Basically a bot is a program that registers accounts on the network. In this case, the bot can act according to the embedded algorithm, or it can be controlled by a person. The second option is called a fake account, but more often all of the above is called “bot”.

The main thing that you need to understand is that the bot is an imitation of a real user and is created for certain tasks.

Why bots?

Bots may have different targets. These can be rather innocent tasks such as