Supposing somebody creates a fake my space or Facebook page?

Yes, people, or more likely bots, do it all the time.

Most of the time, it's for a scam.

What about it?

People make them all the time:
-to check up on spouses, exes or the person they are interested in dating. Kind of creepy but hey you do what you want to...
-to spam people
-For BAD things such as; a pedophile pretending to be a younger person and adding other young people, a serial rapist pretending to be a new woman in town in order to meet other woman and cause harm. There are many other horrible things that people can do..
-A celebrity may have an alias to protect themselves from being attacked by millions of fans
-To promote a business. You may have "Dale's Car Mechanics" and make fan groups, events, etc.

Facebook is a social networking site, like many other social networking site it can be used for good OR bad.

Sarah

Well thank you to both people who answered my question.

What is a "bot" anyway?

what is a "bot" anyway?

Basically a fake person... it's a computer program created to usually generate spam mail and such (annoying advertising usually)

I used to frequent trivia chat rooms and there would be bots all the time posting addresses to porn sites etc.

In those trivia rooms there was a also a 'person' in the room posting the questions.. this wasn't a real person but a "program" that someone has put questions into... that is also known as a bot.

Yet another example is in computer games... if you have every played a first person shooter game where you are running around shooting other players that are really the computer... they are also known as bots.

Oh yeah OK. Thanks shazamataz

What about it?

People make them all the time:
-to check up on spouses, exes or the person they are interested in dating. Kinda creepy but hey you do what you wanna...
-to spam people
-For BAD things such as; a pedophile pretending to be a younger person and adding other young people, a serial rapist pretending to be a new woman in town in order to meet other woman and cause harm. There are many other horrible things that people can do..
-A celebrity may have an alias to protect themselves from being attacked by millions of fans
-To promote a business. You may have "Dale's Car Mechanics" and make fan groups, events, etc.

Facebook is a social networking site, like many other social networking site it can be used for good OR bad.

Sarah

I wonder why people sometimes create profile pages for fictional characters or deceased celebrities? They obviously can't fool anyone in those cases.