 When the automated accounts are publicly identified, the human part of the cyborg is able to take over and could protest that the account has been used manually all along.Such accounts try to pose as real people; in particular, the number of their friends or followers should be resembling that of a real person.There has been rapid growth in the number of U.S. patent applications that cover new technologies related to social media, and the number of them that are published has been growing rapidly over the past five years.