Facebook Addresses Duplicate And False Accounts, Teen Usage In Form 10-K

Facebook said in its Form 10-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that duplicate accounts may have made up between 4.3 percent and 7.9 percent of its worldwide monthly active users in 2013, and that fake profiles that were misclassified by users may have represented 0.8 percent to 2.1 percent of MAUs, while undesirable accounts possibly comprised 0.4 percent to 2.1 percent. The social network also addressed its decline in teen usage.

MaskLaptop650Facebook said in its Form 10-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that duplicate accounts may have made up between 4.3 percent and 7.9 percent of its worldwide monthly active users in 2013, and that fake profiles that were misclassified by users may have represented 0.8 percent to 2.1 percent of MAUs, while undesirable accounts possibly comprised 0.4 percent to 2.1 percent. The social network also addressed its decline in teen usage.

The social network wrote in its Form 10-K o n the topic of possible inaccuracies in its MAUs and daily active users:

The numbers for our key metrics — which include our DAUs, mobile DAUs, MAUs, mobile MAUs, and average revenue per user, as well as certain other metrics such as mobile-only DAUs and mobile-only MAUs — are calculated using internal company data based on the activity of user accounts.

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