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Why does my facebook page attract Arabic users?



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seeker




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, Feb 19 2015, 10:01 pm
I have a blog, facebook page, and twitter account for my business but I'm not super active on any of them. Lost patience blogging because nobody was reading, though I still intend to pick it up again with maybe a different tone/angle. On Facebook and Twitter I occasionally share a link and once in a while actually post my own statii. I have a handful of interested friends on each, and another handful of interested not-personal-friends. Once in a while I get a random or spammy like/follow; on Twitter I've had my share of "pay-per-follow" attempts.

Lately, my facebook page has practically exploded with likes, almost all with either Arabic (font and all) or Arabic sounding names. What could possibly have prompted that? Why would all these people suddenly follow a random, barely-active page? Should I be worried? I have no idea what to make of this!
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frayda




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, Feb 19 2015, 10:27 pm
Are you in Israel? This is extremely common on Facebook pages from Israel. I would just delete and block any of those.
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seeker




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, Feb 19 2015, 10:31 pm
I am not in Israel. Have not even been in Israel since starting the business, so I am quite sure I never accidentally started or administered the account from Israel. I don't post Jewish/Hebrew/Israeli related stuff on the facebook page either - though come to think of it I may have done so on Twitter a couple of times and my Twitter is supposed to automatically post links to facebook page as well. But that was surely not recent enough to explain something like 600 new users over the past few weeks alone!
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imasoftov




 
 
    
 

Post Fri, Feb 20 2015, 3:25 am
I heard that the businesses that sell fake likes also like real pages so it's harder to catch them so it could just be that someone (or a random number generator) put your page on a list of pages to like.
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miri36




 
 
    
 

Post Fri, Feb 20 2015, 6:10 am
Same happened to me. Never update the page and in last few weeks I got 2000 new likes. Can't figure it out. Also lot of Arabic.
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seeker




 
 
    
 

Post Fri, Feb 20 2015, 6:37 am
Well. That makes sense I guess. Interesting. Why would they pick a page with no action and few other likes? Sooo random.
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mille




 
 
    
 

Post Fri, Feb 20 2015, 6:52 am
seeker wrote:
Well. That makes sense I guess. Interesting. Why would they pick a page with no action and few other likes? Sooo random.


Maybe on purpose, maybe they picked somewhere that was inactive so it wouldn't look suspicious. That might make sense if they are liking other pages so as to not be suspicious when they 'sell' likes. They were probably hoping you didn't notice!
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miri36




 
 
    
 

Post Fri, Feb 20 2015, 7:15 am
Who is they that is selling?
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imasoftov




 
 
    
 

Post Sat, Feb 21 2015, 9:05 am
miri36 wrote:
Who is they that is selling?

http://metro.co.uk/2014/02/11/.....8398/
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miri36




 
 
    
 

Post Sat, Feb 21 2015, 4:04 pm
Anything to do about it?
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studying_torah




 
 
    
 

Post Sat, Feb 21 2015, 6:46 pm
Can u clarify what it means to sell likes and what the purpose is. Never heard of such a thing
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