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Who Says Money Can't Buy Friends?
Courtney5000 writes "It looks like some users of popular networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook have stooped so low as to actually pay real money for friends. These friends aren't even real believe it or not. You can apparently choose from a selection of 'models' to leave you customized comments to look like you have friends and are popular online. This is unbelievable!"
...But I really need good slashdot karma ;)
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I though it was another article on the MS/Novell 'agreement.'
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For the low price of just 5 USD, you can chose from our selection of highly praised slashdot users (some with only 3-digit UIDs) to friend you, please send payments to Ihavenofriends@slashdot.org
I guess I wasn't clear enough. Since we're talking about MySpace users, I meant "I wonder if 'gifting' a friendship in this way could help push over the edge someone who is suicidal."
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People have paid for sex for thousands of years. Pathetic as it may seem, why is it surprising that they'd pay for cyber-friends as well?
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He had a pimped out myspace because he was white and nerdy though.
"This is one reason why many people don't use Myspace. Many of the people on it are pathetic and superficial.
And I will give you may absolute full and undying support....for $19.95.
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So you mean all those myspace friends requests I keep getting from scantily clad women are really my friends taking sympathy on me and trying to buy me friends? :(
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Geez! What's next? Paying for live sex on the internet? Oh wait...
Benefits of Myspace without being superficial and spammy? You mean about:blank?
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It's like buying a prostitute that won't put out...
/. represents a relatively small, select group of peopleTell that to all who have ever been slashdotted.. ;P
I would imagine a product like this would appeal to people in a vulnerable social setting, like teenagers.
But teenagers don't have credit cards.
"Dad, can I borrow your credit card to buy some fake friends for myspace?"
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Ya... it's like this escort service I use where they... err... nevermind.
Cash for peerage sounds like something Tony Blair would be intrested in.
If you are over thirty and have a My Space account you are probably a pedophile. .... Oh wait....
Yeah right! After looking with my daughter on MySpace, you are telling me that Tony Hawk is a pedophile, Wierd Al Yankovic is a Pedophile and Michael Jackson is a
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Oh my god, that can't possibly be true! People who pretend to be friends? That's unbelievable! In the real world, nobody would ever pretend to be friends with someone, unless they were real true friends for life, who were willing to die for you!
The internet is just evil. Imagine, people basing popularity just on how attractive someone is? It's not normal.
... and then they built the supercollider.
Wow ... the Dutch have so much wisdom to share.
So how long before having good looking friends is perceived as fake, and people start buying ugly friends? Slashdot. I just made you a fortune.
Next up. Slashdot sells Mod points.
I often have trouble remembering which way is out of bed in the morning.
You mean where you met your $0.99 model from fakemyspace.com
Seems to me there's a business model in there somewhere. All you need is a Step 2).
I'm with you. Most of my non-geek friends are on MySpace so I created an account to keep up with them. My 10 year reunion was organized through MySpace. But every time I pull up a profile my inner web designer dies a little. I use Flashblock to prevent the music from assaulting the ears but these fonts set to 50% opacity over a background of similar color make me want to stab out my own eyes. I have to select the text just to read it and that makes me hurt on so many levels. Why, ye internet Gods, why? Next they will be setting their font to 3px, opacity to 25, with color at #010101 using a background color of #000000. That is when I start hunting Tom with an elephant gun for allowing this.
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What is this "social network" you speak of?
Do I have to own a Zune to use it?
That's a rubbish stereotype. I'm 33.
I know a guy who's fond of saying it's cheaper to rent women than to own your own. He mostly mentions that when female friends are around though.
So those really hot triplets (how else can they all have the same picture?) that keep sending me the same message over, and over, and over on myspace are just bots?!?!
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