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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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Quick with a smile and even faster with a pun, native New Yorker Stephen Morse doesnt seem like a man preoccupied with mass killers.

As a boy he toyed with the idea of becoming an Egyptologist or herpetologist I spent a lot of time trying to catch snakes in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey but eventually he chose microbiology. A lifelong lover of solving puzzles, Morse gravitated toward some of the most mysterious microbes: killer viruses that seemed to strike from out of nowhere, sometimes reaching pandemic levels.

I like intellectual challenges thats probably my greatest weakness, jokes Morse, sitting in his office at Columbia Universitys Mailman School of Public Health, where books, often two or three rows deep, are crammed floor to ceiling.

Morse is credited with creating the term emerging infectious diseases in the late 1980s to explain viruses that can exist for years in an animal host without causing illness. The virus emerges when human activity, such as habitat destruction, causes host-human contact. With the right conditions including transmissibility the virus infects and spreads through our species, sometimes globally.

More than 20 years after he began trying to solve one of epidemiologys biggest challenges understanding why pandemics happen and how we can stop them Morse serves as the director of the U.S. Agency for International Developments worldwide PREDICT project, which has been part of the organizations Emerging Pandemic Threat (EPT) initiative since 2009. The program is multidimensional, from cutting-edge mathematical virus modeling to field educators teaching hunters how to reduce risk of infection from contaminated game.

On a humid New York summer day, in between fielding calls from the State Department and other eminent virologists about expanding PREDICTs efforts into new countries, Morse explained to Discover why preventing pandemic remains an elusive goal.

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Ann Coulter sat down with Piers Morgan on Thursday night, and amidst all the political talk, Morgan actually asked Coulter about romance. Yes, Morgan actually asked Coulter if she would ever date a liberal, and singled out late night host Bill Maher in particular.

Coulter just laughed and said, If you were interviewing Margaret Thatcher, would you ask her that? No, I think not!

When he pressed it further, she said, I am not discussing who I would date!

Coulter also pushed back against some of what Maher said on Morgans show this week about Republicans being power-obsessed, arguing the Democrats are worse because they enforce party discipline like an old communist cell, and if Republicans were smart, theyd target vulnerable Democrats instead of slightly impure Republicans.

Morgan also made Coulter squirm as he played video of Maher joking that Dick Cheney is the illegitimate father of Ann Coulter. Coulter decided to play things more seriously, saying she generally liked Cheneys policies, contrasting Iraq and Afghanistan with how much of a fiasco Syria would have been.

Coulter also defended Ted Cruz from Morgan blaming him for the government shutdown, saying the GOP was willing to compromise all along, and the fact that Obamacare has turned into a trainwreck means their strategy has been quite well-vindicated.

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Conservative columnist Ann Coulter says Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruzs father Rafael Cruz was only kidding when he told a group of Tea Partiers on camera in April that hed like to send President Barack Obama back to Kenya, back to Indonesia.

Coulter appeared on CNNs Piers Morgan Thursday claiming Its clearly a joke.

I give a lot of speeches, the Kenya references always kill, she said.

Back to Kenya what does that mean? Morgan asked.

It means nothing, she responded. Its a reference to Kenya. People laugh because the birther thing is crazy.

Hes not making a joke because he thinks birthism is crazy, Morgan argued.

Its clearly a joke, Coulter shook her head. I think its a joke, well dispute that, let me move on. Um, you know who brought up the birther thing? It was Hillary Clinton who first brought up Was he born in Kenya?

According to Politico, there is no evidence linking Hillary Clinton or her campaign to birtherism or any statement about the presidents citizenship.

And point three, Coulter added. JFKs father was a Nazi sympathizer. Nobody cares what somebodys father thinks.

Morgan argued that a joke about sending a black man back to Africa could easily be seen as offensive.

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