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An estimated 14.3 crore accounts on the popular social networking site Facebook may be false or duplicate, with a major chunk of them coming from developing markets like India and Turkey.

Facebook, which boasts of 119 crore accounts globally, in a US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing said it estimates up to 7.9 per cent accounts being duplicate, and up to 2.1 per cent and up to 1.2 per cent accounts being user-misclassified and un-desirable, respectively.

"We believe the percentage of accounts that are duplicate or false is meaningfully lower in developed markets such as the US or the UK and higher in developing markets such asIndia and Turkey," Facebook today said in a SEC filing.

The social networking giant said its monthly active users (MAUs) stood at 1.19 billion by September 30, 2013.MAUs are registered Facebook users who log in and visit the site through the website or a mobile device or take an action to share content or activity with Facebook friends orconnections via a third-party website that is integrated with Facebook in the last 30 days as of the date of measurement.

The filing further said: "We estimate, for example, that duplicate accounts may have represented between approximately 4.3-7.9 per cent of our worldwide MAUs during the nine months ended September 30, 2013."

Duplicate account is the one, which a user maintains in addition to his or her principal account, it added."We also seek to identify false accounts, which we divide into two categories -- user-misclassified accounts and undesirable accounts.

"During the nine months ended September 30, 2013, for example, we estimate user-misclassified accounts may have represented between approximately 0.8-2.1 per cent of our worldwide MAUs and undesirable accounts may have represented between approximately 0.4-1.2 per cent of our worldwide MAUs," the filing said.

User-misclassified accounts is where users create personal profiles for a business, organisation or non-human entity such as a pet (such entities are permitted on Facebookusing a Page rather than a personal profile under its terms of service, it added.

Undesirable accounts, which represent user profiles that Facebook determines are intended to be used for purposes that violate its terms of service like spamming, the filing added.

However, the social networking major's user base swelled by 18 per cent to 1.19 billion for the third quarter ended September 30, 2013 aided by growth in emerging markets likeIndia and Brazil.

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Allison Sutton, right, an ambassador for ConnectedLiving, shows Jane Gibbs, back, and Betty Seignious, center, how to use the ConnectedLiving program on Thursday at Summit Hills Retirement Community.

Betty Seignious, an 82-year-old who lives in the Summit Hills Retirement Community in Spartanburg, often feels left out of the conversation.

She said her four daughters, who all live in various parts of the state, always communicate with each other via text and social networking sites.

"I don't know how to do any of that stuff," she said. "I feel left out. I say, 'Girls, I'm just going to call you. It's easier.'"

Seignious recently attended a session in the library at Summit Hills, where she learned more about that intricate piece of technology called the computer. She learned how to use a secure web-based social network to connect with friends and family, email her daughters, share and view photographs, listen to her favorite songs from the 1940s, search the web and much more from her own personal homepage.

No, it's not Facebook.

ConnectedLiving, a social network site formed in 2007 and catering to senior adults, was recently introduced at Summit Hills and is offered throughout every neighborhood of the retirement community. Allison Sutton, a ConnectedLiving Ambassador, offers classes about the site twice a week to residents on the campus.

"It's like Facebook," she said. "But it's more of a closed network ---it doesn't allow residents to get spammed by outside people they don't know. It's a one-stop shop for everything."

Kathryn Wiley, media relations coordinator with Summit Hills, said many of their residents own computers and some even carry around iPads, Kindles and other tablets.

These residents will ask Sutton specific questions such as: "How do I download a book to a tablet?" or "How do I use Skype?" or "My daughter gave me this, what do I do with it?"

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The percentages of college admissions officers who say they have Googled an applicant (29%) or visited an applicants Facebook or other social networking page to learn more about them (31%) have risen to their highest levels yet, according to Kaplan Test Preps 2013 survey of college admissions officers*. When Kaplan first began tracking this issue in 2008, barely 10% of admissions officers reported checking an applicants Facebook page. Last year, 27% had used Google and 26% had visited Facebook up from 20% and 24%, respectively, in 2011.

As social media has skyrocketed from being the domain of a younger generation to societal ubiquity, the perceived taboo of admissions officers checking applicants online has diminished, said Seppy Basili, Vice President, Kaplan Test Prep. Granted, most admissions officers are not tapping into Google or Facebook, and certainly not as a matter of course. But theres definitely greater acknowledgment and acceptance of this practice now than there was five years ago.

Despite the growth in online checking, however, theres been a dip to 30% this year from 35% in Kaplans 2012 survey in the number of admissions officers reporting that theyre finding something that negatively impacted an applicants admissions chances. And notably, in a separate survey of college-bound students**, more than three-quarters said they would not be concerned if an admissions officer Googled them. In response to the question, If a college admissions officers were to do an online search of you right now, how concerned would you be with what they found negatively impacting your chances of getting in? 50% said they would be Not at all concerned while 27% said Not too concerned. Only 14% of students said they would be Very concerned while the remainder said they would be Somewhat concerned.

Many students are becoming more cautious about what they post, and also savvier about strengthening privacy settings and circumventing search, said Christine Brown, Executive Director of College Admissions programs, Kaplan Test Prep. Kaplans student survey also showed that 22% had changed their searchable names on social media, 26% had untagged themselves from photos, and 12% had deleted their social media profiles altogether.

Our advice to college applicants is to run themselves through online search engines on a regular basis to be aware of what information is available about them online, and know that whats online is open to discovery and can impact them, said Basili. Sometimes that impact is beneficial, if online searches turn up postings of sports scores, awards, public performances or news of something interesting theyve undertaken. But digital footprints arent always clean, so students should maintain a healthy dose of caution, and definitely think before posting.

For more information about Kaplan Test Preps 2013 survey of college admissions officers, please contact Russell Schaffer at russell.schaffer@kaplan.com or 212.453.7538.

* For the 2013 survey, 381 admissions officers from the nations top national, regional and liberal arts colleges and universities as compiled from U.S. News & World Report were polled by telephone between July and August 2013.

** 422 Kaplan students who took the SAT the ACT between December 2012 and April 2013 were surveyed by email.

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