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MySpace – it’s growing every day, but is it a community?

by Darren

MySpace keeps on getting bigger. This should mean that everyday in the world, someone excitedly joins up to MySpace and becomes a member of the community. And we’re not talking about one person joining daily. Rather, there are tons of people joining every second of every day. But are all these people really there to take place in the community building aspects of Myspace?

I don’t think they all are. In fact, there’s a burgeoning industy of “fake Myspacers” joining each and every day, and now they’re even automating. Being popular is cool, and you can fake it, that’s even cooler. So what happens if you’re in serious search of popularity on MySpace? Well then you need to automate your popularity efforts. In the old days this might mean politicking door to door. Nowadays, you can use a solution like AutoAdder – who’s tagline is “More Friends than you can count”.

I’m not sure how legal this is, but it has my head spinning a bit. Imagine if you had 10 PCs running, adding friends all day. You’d get quite popular. Depending on your landing page, you just might end up making a lot of money.

I’m sure there are plenty of people operating in the cottage industry of making MySpace friends. I bet the percentage is even higher than we think.