This past Saturday morning, I was tagged (along with six other friends) in a Facebook post by Danny Brown.

In it, he questions why Oracle Social, which launched their page just a mere five days prior had 456,000 likes (it’s now more than a million in six days).

I took a stroll over to the Oracle Social page and, thankfully, I was not one of the more than million people who “liked” the page in less than a week, but there are 66 of my friends who have, even though they clearly said they have not.

So what’s going on? How does a page have that many likes in less than a week? Is it paid likes? Or is it something else? (more…)