Foreign naval power: 3 minutes on social platforms "changes in living"-the army, Facebook, social networking-IT information

Navy – it is not a Chinese character.

In other countries, people used another word to describe the production of fake fans or clicked to profit-making companies and people: "tap farm". The "farms" usually found in India, the Philippines, the Asian developing countries like Bangladesh, company employees sit at the computer and mechanical click link, use search engines to search for specific keywords, or falsification of zombie accounts on social networks. Their advantages are obvious: cheap.

Just type in the Google "buy Facebook", the search box will be "smart" display "buy Facebook likes," "buy Facebook pages likes" message. And I believe the results would let potential customers who want to purchase these services "satisfaction": a total of 22.9 million results.

Buy real Facebook fans from around the world or page number like: 250 fans to $ 8.

Buy a Facebook fan of 100% in English! All categories of service. Buy effective! : 200 fans $ 12.

Buy 100% America/United States/European mix of fans. The best package! : 500 mixed fan $ 20.

--A Web site package introduction

In addition, this site offers photo like, friend requests, a five-star rating related package, also allows customers to customize according to requirements to individual fans. It was concluded that, this type of fan points of sale like the number of services already is highly "professional" and "professional".

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Which is backed "click farms" Asian "IT professionals" mechanized work day after day. In an article in The Week, described a Filipino girls create a Facebook "real users" of the whole process:

First, using the pseudonym Builder Web site, she got a job include, but are not names, ages, addresses, occupation, "resume." She then uses this information to register mailbox, head stripped off from the dating site. While Internet access through a proxy server, disguised as Manhattan, with software to disable Facebook Cookies used to track suspicious activity.

After the preparation done, you can apply for a Facebook account. Then insert a SIM card in the old Nokia phones (Novo remember lying gun), will receive the verification code to complete the final step. The whole process in one fell swoop, as long as three minutes.

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As in the past in the city would like to have more people to buy their products, business people specifically ask for support, as in the Internet age, the Navy appears "inevitable", and even the big stars may also need their help. Such as Coca Cola, Mercedes-Benz, Paris Hilton, 2012 United States presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who have been suspected of buying military service. Don′t know compared to the national army, who disguise levels will be more brilliant?

Face of such a fraud, social platform is not without action. In the past few years, Facebook has been using a variety of methods to combat such acts. Last April, Facebook said the pattern recognition technology was upgraded, left click on the false praise farm′s commitment to become "very difficult".

For those people behind the false praise, we will be very tough to track them. Because of the use of our platform business and users want a real connection, and results. ——Facebook

Aside from these "click farms" are what is illegal or improper conduct, has a positive benefit: it actually makes Facebook the technology has become more severe.

国外水军的威力：3分钟在社交平台“大变活人” - 水军,Facebook,社交网络 - IT资讯

水军——它并不是中国特色。

在国外，人们用另一个词来形容这种以生产虚假粉丝或点击来盈利的公司和人们：“点击农场”。这种“农场”通常存在于印度、菲律宾、孟加拉国这样的亚洲发展中国家，公司雇员坐在电脑前机械化地点击链接、用搜索引擎搜索特定关键词、抑或在社交网络伪造僵尸帐号。他们的优势很明显：便宜。

在Google中只需要输入“buy Facebook”，搜索框就会很“智能”地显示“buy Facebook likes”、“buy Facebook pages likes”这样的字样。而搜索结果相信能让那些想购买这些服务的潜在客户“满意”：一共有2290万条结果。

购买来自全球的真实Facebook粉丝或者页面赞数：250个粉丝8美元。

购买100%用英语的Facebook粉丝！服务所有类别。一买就有效！：200个粉丝12美元。

购买100%的美洲/美国/欧洲混合粉丝。最好的套餐！：500个混合粉丝20美元。

——某网站套餐介绍

除此之外，这类网站还提供照片点赞、好友申请、五星评价各类相关套餐，也允许客户根据需求对粉丝进行个人定制。由此推测，这类售卖粉丝数点赞数的服务早已是高度“职业化”和“专业化”了。

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而这些服务背后，就是“点击农场”里那些亚洲“IT从业者”日复一日的机械化工作。在The Week一篇文章中，描述了一位菲律宾姑娘创建一个Facebook“真实用户”的全过程：

首先，利用假名生成器网站，她得到了一份包含但不只姓名、年龄、地址、职业的“简历”。之后她利用这些信息注册邮箱，从约会网站扒下头像。与此同时通过代理服务器将上网地区伪装成曼哈顿，用软件禁用Facebook用来追踪可疑活动的Cookies。

准备工作做好以后，就可以申请Facebook帐号了。这时将一张SIM卡插入老旧的诺基亚手机中（诺记躺枪），就可以收到验证码完成最后一步。整个过程一气呵成，只要三分钟。

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就像过去在市集上希望有更多人来买自己的产品，生意人会专门请人做托一样，在网络时代，水军的出现也是“大势所趋”，而且就算是大公司大明星也可能需要他们的帮助。比如可口可乐、奔驰、帕里斯·希尔顿、2012年美国总统候选人罗姆尼都曾经被怀疑过购买水军服务。不知道和国内水军相比，谁的伪装水平会更出彩？

面对这样的造假情况，社交平台也并不是毫无动作。在过去几年，Facebook就一直在用各种方法打击这类行为。去年4月，Facebook表示自己对模式识别技术进行了升级，使得那些点击农场实现承诺那样的虚假点赞变得“异常困难”。

对于那些在虚假点赞背后的人们，我们会以非常强硬的态度去追踪他们。因为使用我们平台的商家和用户希望的是真正的连接和结果。——Facebook

暂且不论这些“点击农场”是否违法或者是什么不正当行为，有一个好处是肯定的：它实际上让Facebook的技术变得更厉害了。