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uSocial Now Offering Bogus Facebook Friends by the Thousands

Posted 09/03/09 at 06:04:50 PM  by Pulkit Chandna

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After enraging social web luminaries Twitter and Digg, dissident marketing company uSocial has now set its sights on Facebook. It has launched a new service allowing Facebook friends and fans to be bought by the thousands. Facebook buddies are available in multiples of thousand, with the minimum being 1,000 friends and the maximum being 5,000. If it is fans that you are looking to buy, the company can provide up to 10,000 fans.

uSocial is currently offering all the friends/fans packages at introductory prices. While 1,000 Facebook friends or fans can be bought for $177.30, the price for 5,000 friends is $654.30. The current cost of adding 10,000 fans is $1167.30. Although many doubt the worth of buying friends, uSocial founder Leon Hill claims his company delivers targeted friends. "We are getting, basically, targeted friends and fans who are saying, 'Yes, I want information on this,” he told the Associated Press in a phone interview.

He said that friends are added manually by accessing the client’s Facebook profile and sending friendship requests. Facebook is not too pleased by the prospect of users sharing their login information with others.

"Buying and selling of actions that are supposed to be taken by a user are certainly, we would argue, not authentic," said Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt.

Image Credit: uSocial

COMMENTS:5
TAGS: Internet, twitter, digg, facebook, web 2.0, Social Networking, uSocial
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avatarCan't buy me love

Submitted by Biceps on Fri, 09/04/2009 - 3:22pm

Well, that has got to be one of the saddest things I have ever seen.  I, however,  do wonder how much uSocial would pay me for accepting Friend requests from a bunch of losers.  Perhaps I could quit my job and just be a full-time virutal Friend?  If anyone on Max PCs site wants to buy my Friendship (not my love, sorry) the price has now dropped to a rock-bottom 50K.  Any takers?

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avatarim confused

Submitted by Balgaroo on Thu, 09/03/2009 - 7:37pm

What purpose does this serve.  Your speaking to someone that does not have a Facebook, twitter, MySpace, or any other type of social network profile.  Why?  I work at a company that bosses do search the web for crap to pen on employees and they can't catch what they can't see.  

Again, why would someone pay to get friends, what do they get out of it?  I understand gold farming as stated in a previous comment.  I think its stupid but I understand.  A response would be appreciated and one that does not make me feel like an idiot would be even better, but as long as I get the point I really don't care. 

 

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avatarsame thing with games, why

Submitted by comptech08 on Fri, 09/04/2009 - 5:15am

same thing with games, why do people pay tons of real money so they can get fake money to use in a game?  Its stupid.

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avatarpower leveling

Submitted by darkcactus1957 on Thu, 09/03/2009 - 4:07pm

power leveling, gold farming..... It was only a matter of When, not If.

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avatar i can already see the

Submitted by nekollx on Thu, 09/03/2009 - 4:36pm

 i can already see the hashing this will cause

 

"dude your so lame you can't even BUY friends on MyFace!"

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