Who Says Money Can't Buy Friends? 345
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!"
And how many here use myspace? (Score:2, Insightful)
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But what social networks do folks here use? Is there a good one that offers the benefits of a Facebook or Myspace, while being less superficial and spammy?
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Why you SHOULD buy friends on myspace... (Score:3, Interesting)
I'm with you. I hesitate to criticize it because many people I like in real life communicate through it. Many geeks meet on IRC or gaming sites.
Here's my case for buying fake friends on MySpace:
Employers are looking at it!! Lie. Make yourself look awesome. You've signed no contract that your myspace page is accurate. If employers look at it to decide who not to hire, then there's an equal chance that if they see something really impressive, it'll work on your side.
Other things you can do:
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On the computer my social networking is probably limited to playing Counter-Strike.
Actually, only kidding, I have a deviantArt account, but I got that for somewhere to put my pictures online somewhere where I could get critique on my photos, and show that I could show them to my real friends, not really for making new friends. In fact I just find it a hassle trying to keep up with people on sites like deviantArt - even though I met my girlfriend there
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Re:And how many here use myspace? (Score:4, Funny)
What is this "social network" you speak of?
Do I have to own a Zune to use it?
Re:And how many here use myspace? (Score:4, Funny)
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
Re:And how many here use myspace? (Score:5, Insightful)
You can choose to believe that or not. The choice is largely one of ignorance or not.
There are a huge number of people on MySpace, and pigeonholing them in the way you have is akin to a MySpacer saying "Slashdot? That's popular with pale-skinned computer geeks that have no friends, no life, and no social skills. They live in their moms basement at age 35 and consider their computer operating system a defining characteristic of their very existence"
The point I'm trying to make is that if you think that MySpace is full of superficial, ignorant people who accept stereotypes at face value, then you, sir, based on your comments, would fit right in.
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And graduate into complaining about the shallowness of said kids here on Slashdot instead. Much more mature.
Oh well. A few more years and you, too, will be amongst us truly mature people, complaining about people who complain about angsty kids who consider their favorite band-of-the-week as a defining charasteristic of their very existence :)
Re:And how many here use myspace? (Score:4, Funny)
And I will give you may absolute full and undying support....for $19.95.
~X~
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In a way, yes. But it's not about vanity. This service isn't for the regular users of myspace... this service is for fake user pages which are basically an ad for a porn site. People are more likely to visit the site advertised if there are a number of friends. In the eyes of the person building the myspace profile, this creates a bootstrap problem of getting enough people to fall for the page to
I don't need friends... (Score:5, Funny)
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Mail me your Username & Password & for only one fee of $10, I'll post under your name until you have better karma.
Just send an e-mail to Slashdot_Karma@SpamBob.net or we can discuss payment in your journal once you've e-mailed your username:password.
TubeSteak is like V1AGR@ for your Karma
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How is this different (Score:4, Insightful)
So you are buying a new car today yop say? Do you **really** need it?
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Re:How is this different (Score:5, Funny)
Join Project Mayhem today!
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Or "Pluto".
It could be from Japan and not unbelievable (Score:3, Interesting)
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Based upon the header (Score:5, Funny)
Shhhh! (Score:5, Funny)
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I shouldn't have said that. But I wasn't programmed with a backspace option.
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For just 5 dollars... (Score:5, Funny)
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Isn't this done already? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Isn't this done already? (Score:4, Informative)
As someone that pledged & joined a fraternity during my undergrad I take offense to your comments. I met many life long friends, and solidified many other relationships inside this organization. It taught leadership & management skills that certainly will become precursors to strong professional lives.
It is the habit of many people to comment on things they know nothing about; the popular saying is that people in fraternities and sororities really do pay for their friends. In reality, dues are paid to ensure that the organization can continue to function and remain an avenue for people to experience & meet new people, whom they traditionally would not have met.
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(Emphasis mine)
Why, are members of a frat/sorority prohibited from making friends with non members?
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They aren't (Score:3, Informative)
Jeez - get a grip! A f
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It is the habit of many people to comment on things they know nothing about; the popular saying is that people in fraternities and sororities really do pay for their friends. In reality, dues are paid to ensure that the organization can continue to function and remain an avenue for people to experience & meet new people, whom they traditionally would not have met.
So, basically, what you're saying is.. the underlying principal of your comment.. the very essence of the thing that you said just a moment ago... is that.. when you really get down to it.. some people really do pay for their friends?
Re:Isn't this done already? (Score:4, Insightful)
Lesson: Don't admit you were in a frat unless you're around a bunch of other people that were in frats. These days most people, although they are too polite to say anything about it, look down on frats/sororities.
Know the social group you're in. Middle/upper management is probably a good place to advertise that. Slashdot is about the worst place. Look at us, half of us probably beat off to Revenge of the Nerds. Now get outta here before someone starts taunting you with Monty Python quotes.
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Hmm, last time I checked the military academies were still hazing new members. I mean, the upperclassmen still treat freshmen like dirt, and haze them mercilessly, don't they? "Beast Barracks" still exists, doesn't it? Fraternities can't hold a candle to some of the crap I've read about - oh, but that's
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Right--one reason I got out of the service. And our CO was pretty hard-core against any hazing. The whole sub squadron got hard-core against hazing when one ni
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Me(you): "So you think I bought my friends? Tell me, do you attend church?"
Him(me): "No, I dont believe in mass indoctrination of any kind"
Me(you): "doyeee?? Lookz aat myz myspacez! i iz kool!"
Him(me): "oh yeah. You gonna finish that 26er, friend?"
Lesson: Don't put words in other peoples mouths or they will do it right back.
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I have only one response to that... (Score:2)
Unbelievable? (Score:4, Insightful)
On the contrary, I'd say it was inevitable.
What's wrong with that? (Score:4, Interesting)
-Charlie
P.S.
Normal? (Score:5, Interesting)
This website is a nice prank.
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If you look closely a lot of the "different" models are repeated as well. Some even have the same clothes on, they just have a pic taken from a different angle.
I hear you, but it still may be for real.... (Score:2)
http://www.origamiboulder.com/ [origamiboulder.com]
As the saying goes, "there's a sucker born every minute"...and the web gives you access to just about all of them at once.
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Yes it can. (Score:5, Informative)
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The iFriends.
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I grew out of being so materialistic.
Obvious answer (Score:2)
PS: Did you really need this answer to realize it?
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There is an old saying, "Money and success brings you many friends. Adversity tests them."
With regards to the original article, I like this one "A fool and his money are soon parted."
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No....you rent them.... (Score:5, Insightful)
not that unbelievable (Score:5, Funny)
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Most people using professional sex services do this to try to fullfil physical needs because they have no better way available to do so, some because of their lonelyness, other because their official relation is now just a sad joke. Yes, it is pathetic, but it is something I can understand.
This service, on the other hand, is pointless unless you actually have friends to impress in the first place, so it is just similar to what ringtones vendors or gold farmers can sell you:
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New Slogan (Score:5, Insightful)
"Fake Your Space -- A Place For Posers"
Seriously, how is this different than gamers buying virtual goods with real-life money?
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Weird Al didn't need to buy friends.... (Score:4, Funny)
A Fictional Situation. (Score:5, Insightful)
Location a 8th Grade class in a computer room.
Dude B: Dude, you have no friends you are a complete loser!
Dude A: No way I have ton a friends let me show you.
(Dude A opens his MySpace Page)
Dude A: See all the friends I have!
Dude B: Oh I See I guess you are cool after All.
In real life there Dude B wouldn't care. In all this effort to make yourself seem cool the best you can do is make yourself as part of the crowd. So stop trying to be cool it takes to much effort just try to blend in and you are all set.
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What?!?!?! (Score:4, Funny)
What's the point in that? (Score:3, Funny)
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And for any guy on here actually engaged, remember this:
If you put a quarter in a jar every time you have sex before marriage, and then take one out every time you have sex after marriage,
you will never empty the jar, no matter how long you are married.
Oh, how true it is!
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Of course money can buy Friends (Score:5, Funny)
You know you're a loser when... (Score:2)
Cash for peerage / friends. (Score:3, Funny)
My world is collapsing around me! (Score:5, Funny)
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.
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sneetches (Score:5, Funny)
Good Question (Score:3, Insightful)
Actually, that's a good question. I don't recall ever hearing someone say that.
Check the whois records (Score:5, Interesting)
This here is one of them joke sites (Score:5, Informative)
Either that, or Brant is getting a bit hard up for money.
Myspace is also for marketing (Score:3, Interesting)
Money still can't buy friends (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:A treatment for depression? (Score:4, Insightful)
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I think this kind of fake friends will probably only be used in the "my blog has more visitors than yours" childish competitions that take place in every school today.
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But teenagers don't have credit cards.
"Dad, can I borrow your credit card to buy some fake friends for myspace?"