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Trouble making friends online? Buy them
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by ricknight | May 22, 2007 at 02:14 pm
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Need a few thousand friends in a hurry? Chris, the self-described MySpace Man, has an offer for you.For $199 (U.S.), Chris promises to deliver 6,000 to 10,000 MySpace friends to any marketer in just one week. The service is so successful at "EXPLODING" the size of a MySpace friend list, Chris writes on his blog at mysocialmarketing.com, that it should be named the "Whore ME!" package.
Businesses of all shapes and sizes are experimenting with marketing through sites such as MySpace and Facebook, creating online communities to nurture relationships with their most loyal and influential consumers.
Popular brands like Research In Motion Ltd. [RIM-T]'s BlackBerry (8,253 MySpace friends) or Nike [NKE-N] Soccer (47,481) have no trouble adding friends. Less famous brands are turning to services that round them up for a fee, seeking relevancy in a virtual world where status is measured by the length of your friend list.
Another in the the "form over substance" category...
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at 15:17 on May 22nd, 2007
This sounds like the popularity dialer...where you can pay to have this "life-like" person call you while you're at a party, function or a first date to seem like you have a life and you're really popular...buying friends and paying people to call you after 9pm on any day is not a good thing..
at 17:45 on May 22nd, 2007
and we have done it through history. Paying for mourners at funerals was common in Rome... paying "toadies" to follow us around and sing our praises was common in 18th France. I guess we just want to feel loved and have other people see that we are loved, reardless of whether its true or not. [sigh]