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You look better on Myspace...

betagurl — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 02:15:32 -0400

This is an interesting article, but I wonder how much data would be useful when so many profiles are not honestly portraying the real person. For one, there's a lot of really gorgeous 99 year olds out there! How accurate of a demographic would it really be?

SPCAMMER PERSON

jkillian — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 17:41:22 -0400

SPCAMMERS PSUCK.

Myspce Friends...

AbrahamRunning — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 13:52:24 -0500

"Friends" are actually organized by User ID. People that have been on myspace longer have a smaller user Id. People from 0-10 were probably there from the beginning and tend to have hundreds of thousands of friends, Ironically "Tom" is number 6221.

I have entered many comments by hand this information cuts down the time it takes.

Regarding "Friend Adders" this is a conscious choice, it is possible to grow a profile organically, people tell theirs friends who in turn tell their friends.

myspace.com/AlGore08

Does MySpace allow this?

Micah L. Sifry — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 20:59:30 -0500

My understanding is MySpace doesn't want members to be "spammed" by such "friend adder" programs, and may punish people who use them.

MySpace FRIENDS or POPULARITY cannot be determined...

Anita Stewart — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:53:04 -0500

...accurately and fairly if the MySpace profile creator/maintainer uses a program to acquire FRIENDS.

Why anyone would say that MySpace FRIENDS equals POPULARITY of the PROFILE/PAGE has not entered MYSPACE FRIEND ADDER PROGRAM into Google or any other search engine.

There are many of these "bots" or programs out there and they are easily accessible. Some of these pages have PAYPAL links on them so you can purchase the programs and put them to use immediately.

That is why profiles like Edwards, Gore, Clinton have such a large amount of FRIENDS on them. No one was there manually acquiring FRIENDS for these pages. What these bots do in an hour would take days/weeks for a human to do.

Separated at MySpace

Liza Sabater — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:10:47 -0500

I have noticed that my list of MySpace friends doesn't grow linearly. You can't just go to the last page of your "friends" to see who's added themselves to your train.

New "friends" seem to get added and sorted at random. I am assuming it is a ruse used to maximmize pageviews and thusly ad revenue. Still, it lends itself for some unplanned and quite humorous comingly of people who may have never met outside your list.