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Facebook's share price today hit an all time low of $19.82 which values the social networking giant at almost half its May initial offering price of $38.

Facebook members grew to 955 million at the end of the second quarter, but as many as 83 million may be dodgy

Facebook's latest figures showing growth in global users also suggest as many as 83 million may come from dubious sources -- duplicate accounts, pages for pets and those designed to send spam. 

"Undesirable" accounts were profiles deemed to be in breach of Facebook's terms of service.

The figure emerged in Facebook's first quarterly report to US financial regulators since the world's biggest social network made its much-criticised stock market debut in May.

While there are success stories from businesses running ads on Facebook, it seems a big number of users are illegitimate.

The company noted that 8.7 percent of its 955 million user accounts aren’t real. The false accounts are broken into three groups, duplicate accounts, user-misclassified and undesirable.

Facebook estimates that more than 83 million of its 955 million active accounts do not represent real unique users.

Fake and duplicate profiles and spam accounts make up 8.7% of Facebook active pages. Facebook is always looking for and disabling these types of accounts