I used to get a &quot;fake&quot; friend request a week on average with FB. Someone told me to hide my friends list entirely, meaning that I even my own friends can&#x27;t see who I am friends with. As soon as I did that, I think I have gotten one or two fake ones in the last year. My only guess is that my friends&#x27; accounts are getting hacked and the hackers are just networking through their friends list and friend of friends lists and adding people along the way.<p>As for IG, the amount of spam accounts is almost unbearable. To me it is next to Twitter with the number of accounts. IG I average about 3-4 spam (porn or sell me followers) accounts per day. With Twitter it seems to come in chunks. I&#x27;ll go a few weeks without any and then one day I will get 50-60 follower notices from obvious spam accounts. With both it makes the user experience unpleasant.